So what's the deal?
What's different from 4?
t. non-webdev
HTML5?
Wyatt Ross
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Cooper Martinez
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Gabriel Harris
NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
Jaxson Kelly
Kevin Anderson
There is no HTML4, it's just a branding name.
Christian Cook
Basically the flash killer, it included new things like audio/video elements, canvas elements, worker threads, and hardware-accelerated animations which required plug-ins like flash to do with html4.
Oliver Miller
My dumb tech friends mostly like that site.
The ones that are smarter than me swear it's cancer.
Are you meme-ing me?
Luke Gutierrez
Like...its more jewgle
Jordan Adams
This. We should be using browsers made by people who eat foot fungus off of their feet and weight 400lbs.
Dominic Cooper
Takes over the Flash features
Grayson Johnson
If you understand web shit then it's cancer otherwise it's one of your only options
Jackson Gonzalez
You can't use HTML5 on YouTube at higher resolutions... what's the point?
Parker Campbell
Why use HTML5 for YouTube at any resolution?
Thomas Morris
It's kinda outdated as far as webdev goes. But if you're looking for a quick answer on an obvious question without having to decipher what the hell's going on like MDN (Which is better but rather technical.) it's good enough.
John Martin
Media features and being able to do OS things in the browser (sockets, hardware enabling)
Alexander Rogers
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Isaac Flores
Because it's not the woefully unsecure Flash
Joseph Adams
Why use Flash?
Ethan Smith
There's little reason to use it other than better resolution support when there's an alternative available on a website, but much of the internet still relies on Flash and so not using it "locks you out", so to speak.
Jason Bailey
>There's little reason to use it other than better resolution support
You don't even need it for that. I don't use HTML5 or Flash for YouTube and could still get 4k videos
Joshua Thomas
Even sites that DO use flash you can generally just wait for the flash to request the video file, then play it directly in the browser. Most sites use mp4 instead of flv anyway.
You can also script around the flash stuff directly avoiding the flash embed altogether. There's nothing that really needs flash other than arbitrary DRM (not STANDARD drm) like some of the schools have on their E-textbooks which are awful and should definitely be put to the torch.