YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video • Hacker News Board

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by simlevesque » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 9:47 PM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #69

simlevesque wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could have watched a video on Youtube on Firefox for the last year at least. It was a setting in your Youtube account.

Some people like not having accounts on any random website that will be used for tracking and targetting.

Do these people use Chrome ?

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by ThreeAs » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 9:48 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #58

That's great. Now for HTML5 support in all the streaming platforms for live streams. That's going to be another nail in the flash coffin. And it will do wonders for integrating the delivery to both web and mobile clients from the same sources.

As soon as there's an alternative for games, flash will finally be dead.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by ThreeAs » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 9:48 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #58

That's great. Now for HTML5 support in all the streaming platforms for live streams. That's going to be another nail in the flash coffin. And it will do wonders for integrating the delivery to both web and mobile clients from the same sources.

As soon as there's an alternative for games, flash will finally be dead.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by ethana » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 9:49 PM UTC

pantulis wrote: post #70

Sorry dudes. This is not killing Flash. Last time I checked, porn sites were still using it.

As silly as this is, it's completely true ;)

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by pdknsk » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 9:49 PM UTC

That's fine and well, but maybe Google can tell now why they very quietly cancelled YouTube Feather. It was the best way to avoid comments. It stopped working some day, and Google was supposedly working on a fix. A few weeks later, it was removed completely. Since then, radio silence.

http://productforums.google.com/d/topic/youtube/Eae53c5AI5U

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by omaranto » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 9:51 PM UTC

NeutronBoy wrote: post #67

nailer wrote: post #2

Excellent. It's always been weird having a mobile device run YouTube more responsively than an GBP1500 laptop because the latter had to run the Flash plugin.

Youtube and Twitch are the only reasons I keep Chrome around - I much rather supporting the work that Mozilla are doing with Firefox (ie a proper open source browser) than Chrome.

Are you saying that the Flash plugin bundled with Chrome is better than the Flash plugin you can install for Firefox? If so, do you have any idea why?

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by _ea1k » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 9:51 PM UTC

MichaelApproved wrote: post #55

_ea1k wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So did anyone with a pulse. :) The only part that garnered widespread opposition was the sixth point ("the most important reason"). Apple later reversed course on that particular position.

That's some impressive revisionist history. The whole reason Steve published that list was because of the backlash Apple received for not supporting Flash.

And yet in his own words, the "most important reason" was to prevent other companies from using cross-platform libraries (such as Adobe Air) on the platform.

That reason was reversed, and Adobe Air (including what was essentially compiled Flash) became available on iOS.

(see daring fireball for more information: http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flas...)

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by gnrlbzik » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 9:52 PM UTC

rev_bird wrote: post #33

SeanDav wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like to unwind occasionally with browser based flash games so this is not an option for me.

Glad I'm not the only one. The most relaxing way I know of to open up strange, frequent security vulnerabilities.

haha : )

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by killertypo » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 9:54 PM UTC

pantulis wrote: post #70

Sorry dudes. This is not killing Flash. Last time I checked, porn sites were still using it.

yeah but a lot of them are more mobile friendly which means they're not using flash as heavily anymore.

I know this only for research purposes of course...

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by MBCook » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 9:55 PM UTC

Alphasite_ wrote: post #15

erickhill wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now only if Amazon/Netflix would drop Silverlight all would be right with the world.

Netflix has HTML5 support for Safari and iirc IE.

Safari only works on certain 2011 Macs and all 2012 and later Macs.

There are a fair number of people who can't skip Flash quite yet for Netflix.

Good start though.