html5
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Windows 10 Update Will Get Rid of Flash Once and for All
Adobe Flash, the multimedia software platform that powered so many pre-YouTube animated videos like Homestar Runner, is officially ancient technology. As of December 31, 2020, Adobe stopped supporting the software, and now Microsoft is telling every Windows 10 user it’s time to ditch it if they haven’t already.
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YouTube Is Now HTML5 By Default, Goodbye To Flash
It has been a long four years coming, but as of today, YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video on any modern Web browser. What does that mean? Faster video load times, better compression and smoother frame rates, as well as the joy of saying goodbye to Flash.
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Would You Rather Have HTML5 Apps Or Native Apps On Your Smartphone?
Business Insider believes HTML5 apps are primed to overtake native apps on smartphones in the coming years. Steve Jobs was also big on web apps when the iPhone first came out — sans native app ecosystem — but didn’t have the benefit of the HTML5 standard. Now that HTML5 is here, there are apps that…
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ChronoZoom Is Like A Visualised Wikipedia
Can’t say my browser has ever made me feel insignificant, but ChronoZoom, a HTML5-driven, mixed media website that attempts to visualise the universe’s existence does a damn good job. Beware its initial superficiality — all it takes is a couple of clicks to find yourself lost in the history of, well, everything.