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New Embedded YouTube Videos Play as Flash or HTML5

By Matt Buchanan Published July 24, 2010, 12:31 pm ET

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YouTube’s Flash-less HTML5 video offerings keep expanding: The latest is a hybrid embedded video that’ll play HTML5 or Flash video, depending what a viewer’s system supports and their preference. It’s still being tested, but hurray HTML5, etc. [YouTube via Cnet]

https://gizmodo.com/googles-html5-youtube-videos-dont-need-flash-5453436

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