YouTube ditches Flash in favour of HTML5 video

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Martin Wynne
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YouTube ditches Flash in favour of HTML5 video

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YouTube have announced this week that they are scrapping Flash in favour of HTML5 video, and also that the old <object> API is now fully deprecated in favour of the <iframe> API. See:

http://youtube-eng.blogspot.co.uk/2015/ ... l5_27.html

H&M 6.5.2.3002 still uses <object>...<embed>... by default for embedded YouTube videos, so at some stage that is likely to stop working. The code needs changing to the <iframe> embedding -- there is an option to use custom embed code on the Insert Video dialog. The required embed code is available for copying on the YouTube pages.

HTML5 video is good for real-world video but utterly awful for lossless computer graphics and screenshot recordings, typically used in Help web sites. For those I'm changing to FBR format instead of Flash.

p.s. Also currently today there is yet another serious bug reported in the latest version of Adobe Flash, 16.0.0.257 , an update is available.

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Martin.
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Hi Martin,

We're already looking into this. However, note that you can also insert YouTube videos directly by getting the embed code from YouTube and pasting it into an HTML code object. This actually has a couple of benefits: You get a static preview image, broader browser compatibility and a full-screen option as well. 8)
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