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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. 3, 2, 1... by sribe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just uninstalled Flash minutes ago. I'd been thinking about it for a while, but this pushed me to take action.

    Now if I run into any site that requires it, I'll just go away.

  2. Re: Finaly. by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Javascript and SVG. How good the authoring applications are for them, on the other hand, I am not sure. Flash, may still have the better authoring tools?

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  3. So they've finally fixed Pause & Resume? by CrashNBrn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Every time I've tried the "HTML5 video" on YouTube, it would:
    1) lose sync, or just stop loading,
    2) wouldn't let you pause/resume, and
    3) didn't properly cache so you could "rewind" without streaming (download the same bits) again.

    Or is YouTube yet another site that's now "Best Viewed in Chrome" (TM) ?