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YouTube Ditches Flash For HTML5 Video By Default

Posted by Soulskill on from the now-if-they-can-ditch-the-commenters dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Adobe by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Re:Adobe by r1348 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's still one: porn.

  3. Re:So they've finally fixed Pause & Resume? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, this is Google we're talking about here.

    Fantastic Ideas, Half-Assed Implementation, Terrible Follow-Thru, Limited Product Lifetime.

  4. Re:Adobe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  5. Come again? by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    [YouTube] 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.

    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?