YouTube supports HTML 5 to rid Flash

Jason Stockton — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:41:12 +0000

YouTube has just launched an opt-in beta to support a HTML 5 instead of the flash player that we’re used to. If you’re like me you try to avoid using Flash where-ever possible, and HTML 5′s video support is a step closer to a Flash-free web.

The beta currently supports the following browsers:

Google Chrome
Safari (4+)
Internet Explorer with Chrome Frame installed

If you’re using one of these browsers, jump on to the YouTube HTML 5 beta page to opt-in and start trying out the Flash-free video player.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

HTML 5 is coming [video]

Jason Stockton — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:08:26 +0000

So unless you’ve had your head under a rock for the past year or so you’ll have heard about HTML 5. But what’s to be expected in HTML 5 and when can we start using it? Well, you could start using it today in theory, however the full HTML 5 spec isn’t quite finished meaning browsers haven’t rolled out all the features. So who’s on board and what exactly can you do?

Well all major browser developers are on board INCLUDING Microsoft. This is great news, and it’s good to see Microsoft beginning to show support for these standards and putting in the effort to get IE6 + 7 users to upgrade to version 8. Thank you Microsoft!

Instead of me rambling on about what’s coming and what’s currently supported, I’ll show you a video from FOWA London 2009 of Bruce Lawson from Opera talking about HTML 5 and demoing on various browsers.

So many of the HTML 5 features are out and running in some browsers. However, the fact is until the modern browser uptake is greater we’d just be needing to code 2 sets of scripts, one for old and one for new. So at least for the next few years there is not a huge advantage in jumping onboard the HTML 5 train.

Useful Links:

The Web Development Blog » HTML 5

YouTube supports HTML 5 to rid Flash

HTML 5 is coming [video]