The Video Sharing giant, Youtube has now adopted HTML5 as the new default format for all its videos. The initial limitations which were present in HTML5 have been resolved so the company has reverted to HTML5 as its default form for videos as quoted by Engineering manager Richard Leider.
He said that Over the last
four years, they had worked with browser vendors and the broader community to
close those gaps, and now, YouTube uses HTML5 <video> by default in
Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari 8 and in beta versions of Firefox, in his blog post.
Flash had been the default
format for it in the past years, its popularity has made it easy for attacks by
cyber-criminals. HTML5 is used not only in browsers, but also in TV’s and other
streaming gadgets.
YouTube’s action to
continue with HTML5 is symbolic for HTML5 and checks that how far the
technology has developed since the last few months as told by an analyst Al Hilwa of IDC. As the
competition tightened up between the browsers, there has been a shift in the
favour of HTML5. With Youtube being the big giant in the web videos, it is
being expected that other sites will follow up with the same.
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Despite continued
objection that HTML5 has not been up to
the mark and a famous boycott from Facebook, the standard of fine Web
Development has gained an important
conversion in YouTube, while the days seem limited for Flash and Silverlight
plug-in. Flash has dropped to 11.9 percent this month, more than 15 percent an year ago. Microsoft’s late-arriving flash rival, Silverlight has far worse
statistics. Regardless of the HTML5
panic, there’s still a place for Flash and Silverlight, Jeffrey Hammond says ”We
will see them pop up as part of legacy
browser support strategy and on devices like smart TVs etc. But the places where both are used have
been certainly grown more niche over time”.