Wednesday, 28 January 2015

YouTube declined Flash in favor of HTML5 by default

The team of development  had announced that now  HTML5 will be the standard of default settings for playing movies, instead of Flash. HTML5 will be used for playback of content service on the web browser Google Chrome, MS IE11, Apple Safari 8 and beta versions of Mozilla Firefox.
A few years ago zapustileksperimentalnuyu YouTube version of the player to HTML5 devices or OS, which does not support Flash Player, or simply do not want to use it (for example, iOS).


The plugin Flash Player, which is used for playing content Flash, has been repeatedly criticized zapostoyannoe detection of a vulnerability that attackers used to remotely execute malicious code on the system. Unfortunately, for some of these vulnerabilities even the best browser security settings will not be able to protect the user, last year detected vulnerabilities Flash Player, which attackers could use to bypass sandbox mechanisms web browsers.

Source: habrahabr.ru
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