I have to admit that I do not like Flash. It’s insecure and power hungry. And I thought that long before the late Steve Jobs said so. So the news that YouTube is moving away from Flash is something that I really, really like:
Four years ago, we wrote about YouTube’s early support for the HTML5 <video> tag and how it performed compared to Flash. At the time, there were limitations that held it back from becoming our preferred platform for video delivery. Most critically, HTML5 lacked support for Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) that lets us show you more videos with less buffering.
Over the last four years, we’ve worked with browser vendors and the broader community to close those gaps, and now, YouTube uses HTML5 <video> by default in Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and in beta versions of Firefox.
The benefits of HTML5 extend beyond web browsers, and it’s now also used in smart TVs and other streaming devices.
With YouTube moving away from Flash, it means that Flash is likely doomed because others will copy YouTube’s move . And finally, I will have a reason not to have Flash on my computer which will take away one attack vector from the bad guys and make my computer perform better.
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YouTube Moves Away From Flash…. Flash Is Doomed?
I have to admit that I do not like Flash. It’s insecure and power hungry. And I thought that long before the late Steve Jobs said so. So the news that YouTube is moving away from Flash is something that I really, really like:
Four years ago, we wrote about YouTube’s early support for the HTML5 <video> tag and how it performed compared to Flash. At the time, there were limitations that held it back from becoming our preferred platform for video delivery. Most critically, HTML5 lacked support for Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) that lets us show you more videos with less buffering.
Over the last four years, we’ve worked with browser vendors and the broader community to close those gaps, and now, YouTube uses HTML5 <video> by default in Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and in beta versions of Firefox.
The benefits of HTML5 extend beyond web browsers, and it’s now also used in smart TVs and other streaming devices.
With YouTube moving away from Flash, it means that Flash is likely doomed because others will copy YouTube’s move . And finally, I will have a reason not to have Flash on my computer which will take away one attack vector from the bad guys and make my computer perform better.
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