YouTube ditches Flash and defaults to HTML5 <video>

YouTube videos will now be streamed using the latest HTML5 technology instead of the age old 'Flash'. YouTube official Richard Leider wrote on the official blog post that given the advancement in HTML5 YouTube engineering team was able to make, the web version of YouTube will default to HTML5 player. The old style of Flash embeds and Flash API are being deprecated and anyone who wants to embed a YouTube video is now encouraged to use the