Is HTML5 evil?

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I'm trying to toggle Adobe shockwave flash, after Google stopped
allowing a right click "stop download" option on their Youtube
videos. If you just disabled flash player, Youtube forces the video
on you via HTML5.
 
John said:
I'm trying to toggle Adobe shockwave flash, after Google stopped
allowing a right click "stop download" option on their Youtube
videos. If you just disabled flash player, Youtube forces the video
on you via HTML5.
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What browser are you using ?

Paul
 
Paul said:
What browser are you using ?

Paul
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For Firefox, you can try about:config, then set the following three
entries to False by clicking them.

media.ogg.enabled false
media.wave.enabled false
media.webm.enabled false

http://www.trishtech.com/internet/disable_html5_media_in_firefox.php

I guess the idea is, you need to know what media formats HTML5
supports, and then disable them. Apparently, the codecs come
from the OS in some cases.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US...ats_supported_by_the_audio_and_video_elements

Paul
 
For Firefox, you can try about:config, then set the following three
entries to False by clicking them.

media.ogg.enabled false
media.wave.enabled false
media.webm.enabled false
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Thanks for looking. Yes, I'm using Firefox. Tried those
configuration settings, didn't work.

Currently trying Firefox add-ons Flash OnOff combined with StopTube. Seems
to work.

I don't know why Google refuses to provide an easy way to stop the
Youtube download at times, but I need to save the bandwitdh.
 
I'm trying to toggle Adobe shockwave flash, after Google stopped
allowing a right click "stop download" option on their Youtube
videos. If you just disabled flash player, Youtube forces the video
on you via HTML5.
Click to expand...

Is Flash evil? :)

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John said:
Thanks for looking. Yes, I'm using Firefox. Tried those
configuration settings, didn't work.

Currently trying Firefox add-ons Flash OnOff combined with StopTube. Seems
to work.

I don't know why Google refuses to provide an easy way to stop the
Youtube download at times, but I need to save the bandwitdh.
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This page test your browser capabilities. And the additional information
here, gives you some idea what interfaces on the browser they're interested in.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Paul
 
Is Flash evil? :)
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As a sometime programmer, I am firmly convinced HTML5 is evil, compared to Silverlight, which is a joy to program with. Not familiar with Flash. Butin their anti-Microsoft zeal, the zealots killed (effectively) Silverlight, which is a shame. All it will mean however is some poor professional webprogrammer, typically an Indian teenager, will have more fits trying to dothe same thing you can do in Silverlight with one-tenth the effort. Consequently HTML5 will have more bugs.

RL
 
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