Youtube going to HTML 5?

[hobo14]

That would be nice to see.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/13/2323210/YouTube-Revamp-Imminent

[juancarlospaco]

I like if these becomes true, i dont like Flash

[chucky chuckaluck]

chrome has an extension that allows viewing of youtube videos with html5.

[benmoran]

I would love to see HTML5 youtube. That would pretty much ensure that it works on all platforms.

[chriswyatt]

What platforms don't have Flash support?

[samh785]

It's too bad that it isn't at the top anymore. I voted for it and I hope that anyone looking at this thread that supports the idea motivates themselves to vote too.

[juancarlospaco]

What platforms don't have Flash support?

Haiku and ReactOS (from Adobe i mean)

[Seq]

What platforms don't have Flash support?

Linux on PPC -- or pretty much anything that isn't 32-bit intel.

[tubezninja]

What platforms don't have Flash support?

Right now pretty much all mobile platforms, thus requiring a separate app/kluge. "Flash Mobile" barely counts, if you're okay with 2 frames per second, tops.

And Flash for *nix, including OS X, is just plain abysmal.

[user1397]

I voted for it, sounds like a great initiative from Google if they do implement it.

I just got one question: I know the new "video" tag would be for videos/animations (no one knows what the default codec will be, though hopefully it'll be an open format such as ogg). But what about replacing flash animations created with adobe flash cs4 and that series? That is the only program available to my knowledge for creating flash animations, and it is practically a monopoly because it is closed-source. What program/framework would be used instead for this purpose?

[juancarlospaco]

Flash isnt a good technology, something new is needed,
with HTML5 and javascript you can do nice things ATM,
check 3DnoPlugIns, 3D web objects without any plugin, these is the way.

[Muffinabus]

It's too bad that it isn't at the top anymore. I voted for it and I hope that anyone looking at this thread that supports the idea motivates themselves to vote too.

Google acknowledged that it is an idea worth looking in to and noted that they were going to remove it so that other ideas could come forth and be seen.

[samh785]

Google acknowledged that it is an idea worth looking in to and noted that they were going to remove it so that other ideas could come forth and be seen.
Ahh ok, that makes sense. Someone must have made another proposal about it as well, because I voted for one that involved html5 and flash.

[hobo14]

It's too bad that it isn't at the top anymore. I voted for it and I hope that anyone looking at this thread that supports the idea motivates themselves to vote too.

They removed the html5 voting options because they were too popular, they had to give other ideas a chance. Sounds like Google has pretty much made up their minds to do it.
When they took them down 4 of the top 5 voting options were all html5 related.