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YouTube drops Flash for HTML5 video as default
Posted on 1/27/15 at 9:56 pm
Posted on 1/27/15 at 9:56 pm
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The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened — YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for its default web player. The site will now use HTML5 video as standard in Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari 8, and in beta versions of Firefox. YouTube engineer Richard Leider said the time had come to ditch the aging Flash in favor of HTML5 as the latter, used in smart TVs and other streaming devices, had benefits that "extend beyond web browsers."
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Now doesn't this guy look silly:
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I give Apple a year until they cave. Android tablets will just be too cool and too useful for both entertainment and enterprise applications if they don’t.
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Posted on 1/27/15 at 10:35 pm to hikingfan
The very first comment embodies infinite fail:
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Apple ain't so smart
The fact that Apple doesn't allow Flash in iOS, isn't an issue with security (it's been done securely for years), it's a personal issue at the top.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:22 am to hikingfan
Will this in any way help their terrible compression?
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:26 am to hikingfan
HTML5 >> Flash for just about everyone. It's a slow death, but Flash is dying.. and we're all benefitting from it.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:27 am to Spock's Eyebrow
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The fact that Apple doesn't allow Flash in iOS, isn't an issue with security (it's been done securely for years), it's a personal issue at the top.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:36 am to Hulkklogan
Can I now ignore flash updates?
Posted on 1/28/15 at 11:47 am to AlxTgr
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Can I now ignore flash updates?
I'd uninstall it
Now only if Java could exit the PC market at a quicker rate.
This post was edited on 1/28/15 at 11:48 am
Posted on 1/28/15 at 11:58 am to philabuck
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Now only if Java could exit the PC market at a quicker rate.
fricking this
i have to deal with both for my job, unfortunately.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:00 pm to philabuck
I feel like every Java update makes it worse.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:08 pm to Mr Gardoki
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I feel like every Java update makes it worse.
we have installed user base in the millions
many times their pcs are controlled by their IT departments
microsoft/java got together and decided to blacklist older versions of java via browser 'sniff' test
now we get customer calls angry because they get a message about their java version being out of date and their security level wont allow them to allow it to run and their IT department is refusing to update it.
oh java my captain!
This post was edited on 1/28/15 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:15 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
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The fact that Apple doesn't allow Flash in iOS, isn't an issue with security (it's been done securely for years), it's a personal issue at the top.
As I read us-cert updates on 2 major flash vulns discovered in the last couple weeks...
Posted on 1/28/15 at 2:09 pm to AlxTgr
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Can I now ignore flash updates?
No doubt. Those damn things pop up every 5 mins in FF.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 3:54 pm to hikingfan
I'm confused about how this is getting turned into an Android vs Apple thing. Its HTML5 vs the world really. If anything HTML5 will allow developers to create apps that will win on iOS and Android and not have to choose to write one over the other.
Posted on 1/29/15 at 7:21 am to Catman88
I'm confused too. I thought Apple refused flash support because they didn't believe in its long term viability. Didn't jobs say that html5 will win out? Guess they were right 
Posted on 1/29/15 at 8:26 am to tilco
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Didn't jobs say that html5 will win out?
I'm not sure of a single person really involved in the industry that wouldn't have predicted that HTML5 would eventually win out over flash. It was only a matter of when not IF.
But I guess it sounds nice to throw Steve Jobs in the news as a great visionary for stating that a global multiplatform standard released for the first time in 17 years would win out over one companies multimedia platform.
HTML5 is only now taking over because the standards were still being hashed out over a long time and only recently was the stable full release made.
Posted on 1/29/15 at 8:37 am to Catman88
I'm super confused 
I don't see a single apple vs android comment in this thread.
Steve Jobs was mentioned because of the famous letter he wrote to adobe and posted on the Apple website.
I don't see a single apple vs android comment in this thread.
Steve Jobs was mentioned because of the famous letter he wrote to adobe and posted on the Apple website.
This post was edited on 1/29/15 at 8:57 am
Posted on 1/29/15 at 8:50 am to hikingfan
Posted on 1/29/15 at 8:57 am to ATL-TIGER-732
i loathe plug-ins. LOATHE THEM.
Posted on 1/29/15 at 10:04 am to CAD703X
I keep having flash crashes in Chrome and it's driving me crazy.
Posted on 1/29/15 at 10:14 am to Mr Gardoki
firefox went for several weeks on my computer 'rejecting' the flash plugin intermittently saying it was out of date.
i literally didnt have the time to figure out what was going on but eventually repeated 're-isntalls' fixed it.
i literally didnt have the time to figure out what was going on but eventually repeated 're-isntalls' fixed it.
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