The reason that plugins like Flash and Silverlight are still being used is that the content producers don't want their content in the totally unprotected forms that HTML5 video offers.
Until you can find a way to solve that (and such a feat is inherently impossible), you won't see major content moving away from Flash/Silverlight.
All of the stuff on YouTube that is Flash-only either has ads or is "protected" content.
Other types of content like games pick Flash because it's very mature. The APIs that Flash supports in every browser from IE8 on Windows XP to Firefox on Mac OS X are (currently) more capable and stable than anything that the "HTML5 umbrella" (HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, SVG) can offer.
Given:
-The explosion in how much video people watch online
-The rise of casual web games (particularly on Facebook)
The demise of plugins like Flash is greatly exaggerated.
Until you can find a way to solve that (and such a feat is inherently impossible), you won't see major content moving away from Flash/Silverlight.
All of the stuff on YouTube that is Flash-only either has ads or is "protected" content.
Other types of content like games pick Flash because it's very mature. The APIs that Flash supports in every browser from IE8 on Windows XP to Firefox on Mac OS X are (currently) more capable and stable than anything that the "HTML5 umbrella" (HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, SVG) can offer.
Given:
-The explosion in how much video people watch online
-The rise of casual web games (particularly on Facebook)
The demise of plugins like Flash is greatly exaggerated.
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