It is time for change in YouTube. While the designers of the site work to change the current interface, developers seem to be engaging in the new version of the player HTML5 YouTube, which has gained new features. According to Google Operating System blog, found that changes this week, the player "is increasingly ready to replace Flash."
The new version of the player (which is in testing for months) now has options for viewing videos in 480p and 1080p and won a series of contextual menus that already exist in the player's traditional popular video site. Besides the already known labels and notes, now the player HTML5 has a native system of full screen and earned a menu offering the options to copy the video URL to link time and code for embedding in Web pages .
New HTML5 YouTube player: no flash
So far the news is still in testing phase and there is still no date to replace Flash in full, even though Adobe is focusing its efforts lately in the power of HTML5. But those who already have development versions of Chrome and Firefox, which rely on HTML5 support to the tags necessary to make the player work, can activate the test on this page.
Hero of the past, the Adobe Flash lived during troubled times in 2011. If a year ago the presence of the plug was considered a "differential" in tablets like the Motorola Xoom, the platform now goes to the slow death, with the announcement of the discontinuation of its mobile version. The fact that YouTube - the most popular video site on the web - could leave it in the medium term can also show that his end is coming also in computers.
The new version of the player (which is in testing for months) now has options for viewing videos in 480p and 1080p and won a series of contextual menus that already exist in the player's traditional popular video site. Besides the already known labels and notes, now the player HTML5 has a native system of full screen and earned a menu offering the options to copy the video URL to link time and code for embedding in Web pages .
New HTML5 YouTube player: no flash
So far the news is still in testing phase and there is still no date to replace Flash in full, even though Adobe is focusing its efforts lately in the power of HTML5. But those who already have development versions of Chrome and Firefox, which rely on HTML5 support to the tags necessary to make the player work, can activate the test on this page.
Hero of the past, the Adobe Flash lived during troubled times in 2011. If a year ago the presence of the plug was considered a "differential" in tablets like the Motorola Xoom, the platform now goes to the slow death, with the announcement of the discontinuation of its mobile version. The fact that YouTube - the most popular video site on the web - could leave it in the medium term can also show that his end is coming also in computers.
