YouTube about Flash and the HTML5 <video> tag Interesting YouTube API Blog post explains why YouTube uses Flash Player for video playback: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Related