YouTube dumps Flash for HTML 5 as standard for video playback
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 11:00PM 
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Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short
--Steve Jobs, 2010
Today was a milestone for Internet video. YouTube will stop using Adobe's Flash as a default video player for its videos and will now use HTML 5 as a playback standard. YouTube now uses its HTML5 video player by default in Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s IE11, Apple’s Safari 8, and in beta versions of Mozilla’s Firefox browser. YouTube introduced HTML 5 support in 2010, possibly to support smartphones like the iPhone and tablets like the iPad which famously never ran Adobe Flash.
Maturing browser technology, faster bandwidth and more powerful devices and PCs have made HTML 5 a viable standard. For YouTube, it can now also make wider use of Google’s proprietary VP9 vodep codec.
This enables videos to start 15 to 80 per cent quicker and shrinks the average bandwidth required to stream a video by 35 per cent. This becomes important when dealing with larger files and 4K video.
Source: VentureBeat
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