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So long, Flash! YouTube now defaults to HTML5 on the web

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Apple started the war on Flash (http://www.pcworld.com/article/195236/Steve_Jobs_Shares_His_Thoughts_On_Flash.html), but Google may be the company to finish it. Five years after the search giant introduced HTML5 video as an option on YouTube (http://www.pcworld.com/article/187388/article.html), Google’s popular video site now defaults to HMTL5 (http://youtube-eng.blogspot.jp/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html) on the web instead of Flash.</p><p>
The change has been a long time coming, with YouTube working steadily to default to HTML5 across the major browsers, including Chrome, beta versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer 11, and Safari 8.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2876307/so-long-flash-youtube-now-defaults-to-html5-on-the-web.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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