![]() Leider called out HTML5's adoption of Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) as key in its switch. HTML5 is now YouTube's default on Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8, and Firefox betas Almost five years later, the proliferation and advance of HTML5 means that YouTube can now use it for its default player in most modern browsers. Harding said that although HTML5 let YouTube bring videos to devices that don't support Flash Player, such as the iPhone, it did not sufficiently meet the site's needs at the time. YouTube has spent years experimenting with HTML5, and engineer John Harding wrote about its benefits in 2010. ![]() YouTube engineer Richard Leider said the time had come to ditch the aging Flash in favor of HTML5 as the latter, used in smart TVs and other streaming devices, had benefits that "extend beyond web browsers." ![]() The site will now use HTML5 video as standard in Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari 8, and in beta versions of Firefox. The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened - YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for its default web player.
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