YouTube dumps Flash for HTML5

Flash must DIE! And this will help with that tremendously. Oh, Happy Day! ;-)

I couldn't agree more! Silverlight TOO!

And .NET.

I'd rather you didn't get rid of .NET as that is what I do for a living.

Maybe keep it for another 15 years or so?

won't getting rid of .net mean it will go the way of cobol? noone will learn .net anymore, but there is a lot of legacy code to be maintained. you'll be in high demand...

I personally like the last iterations of .NET and wouldn't want to see it gone. Especially now that they are open sourcing it.

Well, whatever they did,... the darn DPMS screen blanking issue came back on my KDE desktop (despite xorg configs & cron jobs turning dpms off),... Good going guys!!! Nice improvement to video on Linux desktops (not)!

Isn't it ironic that Microsoft open-sourced .Net just as Netflix finally became available on Chrome natively for we Linux users?

No more ironic than MS rolling out an OS that features such "innovations" as (cost free) rolling updates, virtual desktops, and a package manager ...

See...this is what drives me nuts. Diane loves her some Pogo.com. Problem is, every few days, they screw with the api and it breaks flash on Linux machines. Yeah, I know, I know...there are other sparkle, shiny and annoying game sites but Pogo is the one where all her friends play. I finally broke down and purchased a license of Windows 7 Home and installed it in VirtualBox. It runs fine. It just chaps my wallet and my a$$ that I had to do it.

Pogo.com will still be running flash long after it has died a fairly wide-spread death across most of the internet.

> I finally broke down and purchased a license of Windows 7 Home and installed it in VirtualBox.

Ken, it is my understanding that there are ways of faking a Windows 7 compatible bios in a virtual machine and then using one of the OEM license keys on it. Not that I would ever condone such unethical behavior, of course.

Hmm, this thread: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=31759&star... seems to discuss the matter.

http://youtube-eng.blogspot.jp/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-... hehe , yes finally some good news , pitty though that DRM is (again) 'included' ; http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-cl... https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/

I really don't see what your problem with Flash is, it's far from perfect but so far I find that browsers with HTML5 video are even more resource hungry (especially cpu) than Flash.

On Linux PCs with Nvidia GPU Flash Video is actually really light on the Cpu as it supports VDPAU which doesn't seem to be supported yet in Firefox for HTML5.

Flash on Linux has never been a serious security concern (unlike on Windows) and has always worked well on all Linux PC's I used it on over the last 15 years or so (basically since it first became available, don't remember the year).

Remember the days before Flash became the standard Video player?

Before then us Linux users couldn't watch a lot of online video stuff as Video would be implemented with some IE only ActiveX binary, not to mention lot's of other web pages using ActiveX for all sorts of things that these days are being done with Flash. Whole web sites were completely unusable with anything other than IE.

HTML5, while theoretically a step forward, still looks like a mess, with so far even more inefficient and cpu heavy implementation than Flash, and DRM included in the standard.

Apart from that the title is plain wrong: Youtube didn't dump Flash, they only changed the default to HTML5 for recent browsers.