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by kiloaper 5226 days ago
>I'm not finding any great hardship these days.

You must not watch many videos in your browsers then outside the odd one on Youtube. The reality out there is that Flash is still the main choice for delivering video. Flash is a necessary evil. It may be dying but for many it's still necessary and its removal from Firefox removes significant usability for its users.
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bwarp 5226 days ago
Not really. I prefer written words as the content is easier to scan through. Video is almost laborious watching.
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yardie 5226 days ago
I watch plenty of videos and I've never had a problem with the big streaming sites delivering h264 versions. The only flash videos I still encounter are on older, lightly, maintained sites or sites that just download flv files.

And if iPad sales are any indication I don't think it's as big a deal as you make it out to be.

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gcp 5226 days ago
The iPad includes H264 support, as does Chrome. Firefox doesn't (and neither does Chromium, does it?). So this does screw anyone over who wants to watch H264, which really is the majority of video on the web.
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daleharvey 5226 days ago
nobody wany yo watch h264, they want to watch video, its up to the site to accomodate them
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gcp 5226 days ago
Yeah right, websites really care for the Linux user on Firefox and are willing to go to extra lengths to accommodate him.
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cookiecaper 5226 days ago
People won't serve you HTML 5 video unless you impersonate a mobile device. It's still a problem if you don't want to change your user-agent every time you visit a website and just cross your fingers that they think you're mobile and therefore serve up HTML 5 (and as others have pointed out, often in a format that non-Chrome won't play anyway).
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jrockway 5226 days ago
youtube.com/html5
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cookiecaper 5226 days ago
Right, YT is one among a handful of exceptions that serve HTML 5 to a desktop browser. That doesn't really change the general argument -- almost all sites are not going to give HTML 5 video as an option to desktop clients.
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jrockway 5226 days ago
I didn't realize anybody used other sites for video :)
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lazugod 5225 days ago
They somewhat appear to want to: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/21/apple-google-col...
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