YouTube pushes Flash to the back burner, will now default to HTML5 player

AppleInsider
Jan 27, 2015, 3:53 pm663 pts
Nearly five years after Steve Jobs published his infamous "Thoughts on Flash," streaming video service YouTube has announced plans to migrate away from the technology as users accessing the site via Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari 8, and beta versions of Firefox will now be served the HTML5 video player by…

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