The most popular online video viewer, YouTube, has decided to abandon the flash for HTML5, which will now be the norm.
Over the last four years, the YouTube experimenting with HTML5, and it has now been announced that it will be the basic template for running the service in Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari 8 και όλες τις δοκιμαστικές εκδόσεις του Firefox. Η απόφαση αυτή εκτιμάται ότι θα επηρεάσει την ταχύτητα με την οποία φορτώνει ένα βίντεο, ειδικά σε συνθήκες αυξημένης κυκλοφορίας στο Διαnetwork and to connections that handle large amounts of data.
Adaptive Bitrate technology, or ABR for short, allows YouTube to adjust resolution and bitrate as network usage conditions change, cutting online buffering in half and even more videos. Παράλληλα, το HTML5 επιτρέπει το ανοιχτό πρότυπο VP9, το οποίο και επιτρέπει την προβολή υψηλότερης ποιότητας βίντεο με archives smaller volume, which boosts the loading speed, especially for those who use mobile Internet.
Everything indicates that HTML5 is moving towards full Web dominance, with Adobe's flash being abandoned by an ever-increasing number of services and from widely used platforms such as Apple's iOS operating system.
Source: pestaola.gr
