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The news we've been waiting for! Death to flash

Gamer9430

Gamer9430

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ptdebate said:
:apple: :p

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/11374819/YouTube-drops-Adobe-for-HTML-5.html

YouTube has officially dropped Flash in favor of HTML-5. Thoughts?
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damn, you beat me to posting it. With my understanding, this removes the need for plugins and apps like MacTubes on PowerPC computers. I think T4F supports html 5, thus it can now play youtube video's without plugins. It also might reduce the lag because it needs to stream the videos to apps or plugins, then overlay them onto T4F, using more resources in the process.
 
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weckart

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Gamer9430 said:
damn, you beat me to posting it. With my understanding, this removes the need for plugins and apps like MacTubes on PowerPC computers. I think T4F supports html 5, thus it can now play youtube video's without plugins. It also might reduce the lag because it needs to stream the videos to apps or plugins, then overlay them onto T4F, using more resources in the process.
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If you have a Youtube/Gmail/Google account and sign in when you look at Youtube you can have it default to HTML5. It has been that way for a while now. Problem remains that not all files uploaded have a HTML5 version. Quite a few are Flash only.
 
Gamer9430

Gamer9430

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weckart said:
If you have a Youtube/Gmail/Google account and sign in when you look at Youtube you can have it default to HTML5. It has been that way for a while now. Problem remains that not all files uploaded have a HTML5 version. Quite a few are Flash only.
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really? I had no clue that existed!
 
poiihy

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Gamer9430 said:
damn, you beat me to posting it. With my understanding, this removes the need for plugins and apps like MacTubes on PowerPC computers. I think T4F supports html 5, thus it can now play youtube video's without plugins. It also might reduce the lag because it needs to stream the videos to apps or plugins, then overlay them onto T4F, using more resources in the process.
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I thought you could already use HTML5 YouTube if you wanted to using Testtube?
 
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