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I'm really curious...do most sites now fall back to HTML5-compatible players even on the desktop?

I'd love to uninstall Flash, but it'd be a major pain if I had to switch over to Chrome every time I wanted to visit an MP3 blog or news site (think CNN or The Verge with their proprietary Flash video players).

EDIT: Also, last I checked, HTML5 videos on YouTube could not be played in "true" fullscreen (they'd only take over the browser window, not your entire screen). Has that changed?



News sites would probably be the ones that would make you flip over to Chrome, as well as MP3 sites I guess. The Verge falls back properly, as do pretty much all YouTube videos.

Most browsers (at least Safari definitely does) do proper full screen too.

I'm not sure if the experience would be as good with Firefox as I'm not sure if they support H.264 yet. But I heard that was planned.

I'd encourage you to try it for a while - it's free and pretty quick to re-install Flash if it gets too annoying.


1) Those using popular open source players often do. Podcasts and vodcasts should have an RSS feed you can subscribe.

2) Yes, full screen works since the JS API was implemented in all browsers (albeit prefixed until recently) except for IE.




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