HTML5 - YouTube's New Future?
By now I'm sure you know about all the whining and the bitterness of people talking about the iPad and how it doesn't support Adobe Flash, and also the people who are happy about it and seem to endlessly complain about how Flash should not be anywhere, and it should just go away. I personally haven't had a crash issue in flash, however I do agree that Flash needs to work on how much memory and CPU it takes up on OS X. So, today I decided to try HTML5 on YouTube's website, since I recently started having issues with loading YouTube videos. Others such as jkls have also had this issue, just to a more severe degree.
- A typical YouTube video on HTML5.
Although, there are some restrictions to HTML5 in YouTube. Currently, all ads on YouTube are flash-based, therefore all videos that have ads on them will still have flash support. Also, Fullscreen support is disabled on all HTML5 videos. YouTube says they are working on bringing both of these features to HTML5, and considering past new features that YouTube rolled out, it shouldn't be too long.
First thoughts on HTML5 are decent. There are features missing as of now, though. YouTube will eventually fix these issues, but these could be some issues that could make you want to wait for HTML5.
The only way to pause a video in YouTube is by manually pressing the pause button. In Flash, you could press the space key or click on the video once to pause it. In HTML5, however, you cannot. I don't really have an issue with this, I am willing to give up some features in YouTube to have better playback and a more stable program.
As of now, HTML5 is not perfect, but I do think that this version is a step up from Flash. If YouTube continues its work with HTML5 and adds all the features Flash supports, HTML5 has a bright feature.
Kevin Nunez
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