We’re very happy to see such active and enthusiastic discussion about evolving web standards - YouTube is dependent on browser enhancement in order for us to improve the video experience for our users. While HTML5’s video support enables us to bring most of the content and features of YouTube to computers and other devices that don’t support Flash Player, it does not yet meet all of our needs. Today, Adobe Flash provides the best platform for YouTube’s video distribution requirements, which is why our primary video player is built with it.

[url=http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2WDAHLdKDTw/YouTube-Explains-Where-HTML5-Video-Fails]YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails

[url=http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html]Flash and the HTML5 <video> tag