Report: HTML5 web video usage doubled in 5 months
MeFeedia released a report today that isn't going to make Adobe happy. HTML5 video on the web is on a substantial rise, going from just 10% of web videos in January of this year to 54% of total web videos this October. Just five months ago in May, HTML5 usage was at 26%. MeFeedia found that while Flash is still the dominant player of choice on desktop PCs, mobile devices like the iPad, iPhone, and Android phones are what are driving HTML5 adoption.Steve Jobs penned his Thoughts on Flash letter back in April in which he wrote that Flash is a dying technology and the future of web video was in HTML5. From the latest adoption rates of HTML5 for web video, it looks like he was right.
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MeFeedia released a report today that isn't going to make Adobe happy. HTML5 video on the web is on a substantial rise, going from just 10%...
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There is a lot of nice html5/flash hybrid players like http://darkonxy.web-anatomy.com or http://sublimevideo.net which work perfectly on any devices. HTML5 is definitely a future for mobile devices.
@ modua - actually when it comes to performance Flash still outperforms HTML5 many times. With Flash 10.1 there is a huge boost thanks to hardware acceleration. HTML5 Videos on Full HD are... pain in the *****...
HTML5 is not a replacement technology for Flash.
HTML is a language specification which is interpreted by browser developers. Flash is a run-time graphic engine that offers pixel-exact playback across multiple platforms. Adobe does have an "open" specification for the SWF files.
In fact, SWF is more akin to HTML5. They both contain data and the information on how to display the data. The Flash player is more akin to a web browser.
Quite simply, HTML5 is not a replacement for Flash, Silverlight, Java, etc... There is some confusion as some of the features overlap. You could build the TUAW website completely in Flash, but that would be a bad use of that technology. Conversely you can build advanced games in HTML5, but your quality would suffer. Again, a bad use of the technology.
Having HTML5 is great. We have waited a decade for it. About time. It offers some great tools for simple media display that were seriously lacking in HTML4. It won't replace Flash. Look at what is being made in Flash:
http://www.youtube.com/user/alternativaplatform
Apple has spread a lot of misinformation about Flash. It is true that Flash apps are being replaced with alternatives for the iPad and iPhone, but it isn't HTML5. it is native apps. THAT is Apple's real Flash alternative.
Not all of what you posted is true. I have seen plenty of sites and games that incorporate HTML5 solely and you get the same results as Flash without all that CPU usage. Flash will eventually take a backseat, just like HyperCard. Its not ready for the mobile space.
October 30 2010 at 7:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhen we arrive at the animation and application development with HTML5 Flash / Flex / Air currently produce, we have something to tell.
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Jobs did not 'correctly predict' that HTML5 is the future of web video - standards bodies and browser makers did.
Jobs *forced accelerated adoption* of HTML5 video by refusing to support it in iOS.
grifmusic: You're absolutely spot on the mark.
If HTML5 was all that and a bag of chips why on earth would Apple not give users the ability to create dynamic compelling content with a shiny new version of iWeb??
Simple. HTML5 is not all that.
would love to take advantage of more html5 options for simple websites if Apple would have upgraded iWeb to do so. was really looking forward to it actually.
C'mon now.... Read the article TUAW. Your title says 'usage' but that is not what the report is about.
How much of that h264 is being streamed to Flash players... that doesn't make it 'HTML5 video', just like h264 != HTML5 video.
"54% of web video is now available for playback in HTML5. Double in 5 months."
quote:
"Report: HTML5 web video usage doubled in 5 months"
How many months has the iPad in the market?
Oh, men, six months!
(Any coincidence is just that, a coincidence!)
LOL! Look at the chart closely. It says "Percentage of H.264 video **AVAILABLE** for HTML 5 Playback". It says nothing about HOW that h.264 video is being served or consumed, whether via an HTML 5 interface, Flash, by linking to the video directly, or even QUICKTIME or maybe worse - REALPLAYER haha!!
Furthermore I believe this just reflects the fact that google has caught up encoding all their video in h.264 format and is keeping up with the new videos that are being uploaded. Earlier this year it was quite common to run into a youtube video that wasn't encoded properly for the mobile, its very rare you run into that problem now. Youtube represent 40% or so of all the video on the web.
Youtube and Hulu have explicitly stated that Flash will continue to be their primary platform for delivering video.
"looks like he [Steve Jobs] was right" - LOL! Please resist naively jumping to conclusions! Even if the chart said %100 percent it would be no reflection as to the viability of Flash, which still remains the defacto medium for cross browser delivery on desktops, is now just beginning to proliferate on Android and BB devices, and continues to be used for way more than just delivering flat video :P
As a user, the only thing that counts for me is if I can view some video, I really don't care at all if the same content is also served as Flash, QuickTime or Realplayer. Lots of people have said you need Flash on your phone because otherwise you'd not be able to watch most of the video content on the internet, this statistic seems to imply the lack of Flash is rapidly becoming a non-issue for video. So I think the statistic is useful enough like it is.
October 28 2010 at 7:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOh and by the way, YouTube, Hulu and Netflix have native iPad apps that many people apparently prefer over their web interfaces, and YouTube content also plays just fine directly from the browser, in fact it's a lot nicer than Youtube Flash on a desktop even since the video's present themselves as part of the content, instead of some isolated box with a plugin in it. Again, who cares if YouTube or Hulu want to stick with Flash as their primary method of delivery, as long as the also provide HTML5 video or a native application?
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