YouTube Ditches Flash For HTML5 Video Format
The online streaming network recently announced that HTML5 will be the new default video format, underscoring an effort to standardize video across platforms
Over the past few years, Flash has become an increasingly unpopular as a format for video content. YouTube began supporting a HTML5 solution back in 2010, but now the video service decided HTML5 will be the new default. This move could hint at an shift in YouTube’s long term strategy, and point to hopes of expanding beyond mobile and desktop.
The official blog post from YouTube about the change outlines their strategy quite clearly. By using HTML5 over Flash, the site can offer video to a wider variety of devices.
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