Intent to Implement: Rewrite Flash YouTube Embeds

[Mounir Lamouri]

Contacts

eri...@chromium.org, kds...@google.com, mlam...@chromium.org

 

Summary

We want Chrome to automatically use the HTML5 content of a YouTube embed when the Flash one is used. This will allow the long tail of websites that never updated to the HTML5 embeds to no longer require Flash for Chrome users, thus reducing overall usage of Flash in Chrome.

 

Background

Chrome wants to push Web contents to HTML5 by default. Safari 10 announced a similar policy of disabling Flash and they have been rewriting YouTube Flash embeds on iOS for some time already. Firefox is also going in this direction and they shipped a YouTube Flash embeds rewrite in Firefox 47.

 

Launch bug:

https://crbug.com/625983

 

Implementation bug:

https://crbug.com/625984

 

Design doc

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xHBaX2WhfZVmfeWyLNOX76l9cPiXrQNXqRrUMtlvfks/edit

 

Cheers,

-- Mounir

[Jeremy Roman]

Yay! I asked about doing this ~1.5y ago (if it sticks, you should be able to remove MobileYouTubePlugin, our existing YouTube workaround), but at that time nobody had demonstrated that it was web compatible.

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[Rachel Blum]

+1 - very excited this is happening!

[Anthony LaForge]

This will be a nice win!

Kind Regards,

Anthony Laforge
Technical Program Manager
Mountain View, CA

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[yupeng zhang]

Flash as the very out-dated product should be deprecated, HTML5 is the right way, lightweight, more open, more secure.

在 2016年7月22日星期五 UTC+8上午4:04:31，Mounir Lamouri写道：