Google's HTML5 YouTube Videos Don't Need Flash - Ruh roh!
Google's HTML5 YouTube Videos Don't Need Flash
HTML5 is a major part of Google's plans for the future, including Chrome OS—check out this interview for more on that—and one step towards that is getting YouTube to work without a Flash plugin, which they've now achieved. It's not perfect yet (no ads or annotations) and it only works on certain supported browsers (Chrome and Safari, at the moment) but it's still a taste of what's to come. You can hit up TestTube to check it out. [YouTube]
via gizmodo.com
Best bit from the comments:
What? A step away from the bloated, consuming monster that is the basis (unnecessarily) for tons of media online?
Adobe is going to shit kittens.
