HTML5 already rules YouTube

Is this the end of the flash era? That's the question Internet users are asking themselves after YouTube, the world's largest video site, decided to use HTML5 as its default. Website users have long been able to choose between Adobe Flash and HTML5 at the option level, but now the latter is becoming the primary option. Until now, developers have been unable to overcome the shortcomings still present in HTML5. There was no support for ABR (Adaptive Bitrate) technology, which reduces bandwidth consumption and buffers video faster. However, ABR is already available in HTML5, allowing YouTube to provide smooth streaming to devices such as Xbox One, PlayStation 4 or even Google Chromecast, as well as smart TVs. HTML5 also supports the important VP9 codec, which allows you to reduce bandwidth consumption, load time and video size without sacrificing quality.

HTML5 is the language used to create and present web pages. It is a development of the HTML 4 language and its XML version (XHTML 1). It was developed as a competitive specification for XHTML 2, which was discontinued on July 2, 2009. The specification was finalized in 2014. On October 28 last year, the standard was officially released as a W3C Recommendation. In 2016, HTML 5.1 and the draft HTML 5.2 standard should be ready. HTML5 for YouTube is already the default in browsers such as Google Chrome, Safari 8, Internet Explorer 11, and beta versions of Mozilla Firefox.