Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:03:45 -0400, James Holsenback wrote:
>
> > On 07/14/2015 06:51 PM, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> >> James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
> >>> I've been staying away from flash for quite sometime now ... so it's
> >>> about time
> >>>
> >>> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33520935
> >>
> >> Personally, I find this annoying as hell.  I use youtube.  I visit
> >> sites that have embedded video.  Very few of them use HTML5, and as
> >> yet, nobody has come up with an alternative that works.
> >
> > there's a couple of flash to html5 plugins for firefox and that work
> > fine (I visit youtube often and they work well) ... true enough though
> > that there are plenty of sites that haven't seen the light. now perhaps
> > mozilla's strong arming will prompt a move away from perhaps the most
> > insecure piece of software on the planet. my comments to bbc's new look
> > a few months ago included a rant about flash content ... javascript is a
> > close second.
>
> ??? Youtube supports HTML5....
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> --
> "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
> besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

Only on a very small selection of videos, last I tried it. It was extremely
buggy and about half of the videos I tried to watch simply wouldn't load.

A.D.B.

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