YouTube endorses Flash
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I didn't read the YouTube blog post as an endorsement, just a common sense statement of where things are regarding the two technologies. While people might not like to hear this, I don't think there's much question HTML5 will eventually replace Flash for most things. At the same time, even the most ardent advocates of HTML5 aren't trying to convince anyone that 100% of the web - or even 10% of it - is ready to make that transition today.
So I thought the YouTube post just sort of matter of factly went through the areas where HTML5 needs to catch up before it would be feasible for them to truly replace Flash entirely (which, when it happens, would be a pretty huge blow to Flash considering YT makes up something like 40% of ALL video on the web). I think, BTW, people who do Flash for a living can relax slightly because it's clearly gonna take a while, and even then, has little bearing on, say, marketing sites done in Flash on other uses of Flash. At the same time, I didn't see anything in here that was technologically impossible.
- yeah i basically read it as "HTML5 can't do everything we want to do but flash can"lodef