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The only things I can think of are Flash in YouTube provides far more control over playback for things like downloading, ad delivery etc. But fundamentally...

by panacea 14y ago

The only things I can think of are Flash in YouTube provides far more control over playback for things like downloading, ad delivery etc. But fundamentally... Street View. I can't see how that will be delivered with high performance by HTML5 any time soon.

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
WebGL or perhaps fiddling with Canvas. It's only a matter of time.
jiggy2011 14y ago
It doesn't seem that unlikely, street view is mostly a fancy slideshow.
- recursive 14y ago
  It does some pretty sweet 3d-aware image manipulation. I wouldn't call that a slide show.
  - jiggy2011 14y ago
    On the client end?
    - recursive 14y ago
      Yes.
falling 14y ago
Street View already works in the WebGL version of Google Maps, with performance no worse than the Flash version.
- panacea 14y ago
  Then I retract my half-hearted defense that perhaps Google is invested in Flash.
drivebyacct2 14y ago
Which is why they're furiously working on MediaSource API (and it's been in Chrome for a while for those who pay attention to their about:flags)