On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 19:16, Caleb Cushing <xenoterrac...@gmail.com> wrote: > as of right now I don't think <video> is ready. however I'm all for > many of the other improvements coming in html5 and I wish people would > focus on rolling those out. > > [...] > > I tried html5 again on youtube, my video took several minutes to load > compared to flash which works nearly instantly.Given since I'm on > chromium 5 I don't think it was a webm video... so that may matter... > but if this is what html5 is going to be like... not sure I want it.
Personally, if it wasn't for HTML5 I wouldn't be able to use YouTube. My laptop is ancient and decrepit, and cannot handle Flash on Linux, but the <video> element works just fine, and loads as fast as I'm used to Flash video loading. Maybe there's a bit of a slowdown versus Flash if you have a cutting-edge system, but not everyone is in that situation. ~celti
