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YouTube Ditches Flash For HTML5 Video By Default
An anonymous reader writes: YouTube today announced it has finally stopped using Adobe Flash by default. The site now uses its HTML5 video player by default in Google's Chrome, Microsoft's IE11, Apple's Safari 8, and in beta versions of Mozilla's Firefox browser. At the same time, YouTube is now also defaulting to its HTML5 player on the web. In fact, the company is deprecating the "old style" Flash object embeds and its Flash API, pointing users to the iFrame API instead, since the latter can adapt depending on the device and browser you're using.
Without Flash, what's the preferred way to deploy vector animations of the sort seen on Homestar Runner, Weebl's Stuff, Newgrounds, Dagobah, and Albino Blacksheep, without bloating them by a factor of 10 by rendering them to WebM?
I care. The death of Flash will be celebrated by many. Once YouTube stops using it there will be no reason to even install it any more. No more annoying updates, no more vulnerabilities.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
There's still one: porn.
No, this is Google we're talking about here.
Fantastic Ideas, Half-Assed Implementation, Terrible Follow-Thru, Limited Product Lifetime.
Porn and girlfriends / boyfriends are not mutually exclusive. Because, y'know, they are people too and might not want to exist simply to replace porn whenever you are in the mood.
You mean the web you browse with Google's Chrome, Microsoft's IE11, Apple's Safari 8, and in beta versions of Mozilla's Firefox?
Am I missing something here, or are these sentences completely redundant?
You comment that the parent is narrow minded and yet your view is equally narrow minded. I'm happily married (10 years now), together 17 years. I enjoyed porn before my marriage, and still enjoy it during my marriage. My wife enjoys it too, often times she'll watch it without me. We have an amazing sex life, but there is no reason that enjoyment of porn can't be a part of that. It provides ideas, fantasy, additional stimulation, an element of "dirtyness" and other elements that should always be welcome in a loving bedroom.
All I care about is can we lose the ads?
Actually this is going to make things worse.
When the annoying, music playing, flashing punch the monkey ads were in flash, it was trivial to block them using something like flashblock because you simply stopped the plugin from running.
Now adblockers are going to have to parse the code making it very easy for ads to avoid detection and masquerade as content.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.