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

[ptdebate]

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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?

 

[128keaton]

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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?

Even though YouTube is dropping it, I doubt many websites will follow through for some more years. Even so, HTML5 is resource intensive, though not as much as flash.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Good riddance!

Sadly though, on Youtube I find HTML5 video more choppy than Flash but my default is ClickToPlugin/Quicktime anyway.

 

[Gamer9430]

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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?

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.

 

[weckart]

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.

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]

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.

really? I had no clue that existed!

 

[weckart]

really? I had no clue that existed!

It is in the settings or it was the last time I looked. Youtube ran a beta for a while.

Just checked - gone from the settings but the requester page is still there as it was in the beta run.

https://www.youtube.com/html5

 

[poiihy]

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.

I thought you could already use HTML5 YouTube if you wanted to using Testtube?