YouTube dumps Flash for HTML 5 as standard for video playback

Photo by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla exclusive to Canadian Reviewer

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. 

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Adobe to end Flash on Android today

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The Adobe Flash plugin, once touted to offer "the full web experience" on mobile devices is officially terminated on Android devices starting today. Adobe hasn't been developing Flash for mobile devices and today it completely pulls out of the Android marketplace. Adobe made the announcement late last year by stating that, "HTML 5 is best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms." 

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