HTML5 Video Support

By Anders Brownworth - Friday, October 16, 2009 10:22 AM

If you have followed me at least casually, you will know I am no fan of Flash. With the HTML5 spec including native video support, I see the only reasonable use for flash falling by the wayside. When big sites like YouTube start rolling this out, not only will videos play smoothly without dropping frames, but I will be able to finally delete the most pervasive plugin on the Internet from my browsers for good.

I wouldn't feel this vehemently if Adobe got off their butts and properly threaded video in Flash but the general annoying misuse of Flash doesn't help either.

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Anders from Boston, USA

The folks at neosmart.net have started to hack together an HTML5 YouTube viewer. As this particular hack wraps YouTube's MP4 stream and MP4 requires special licensing considerations, this doesn't yet work in FireFox.

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