John Gruber has an opinion in his piece showing how to load HTML5 video instead of Flash in Safari on OSX.
That this works for so many sites shows that Safari on Mac OS X is perfectly capable of playing a lot of video on the web that seemingly requires Flash. Web developers should start serving video via the HTML5 <video> tag by default, and fall back to flash if the <video> tag isn’t supported.
It’s pretty clear Safari is a tiny proportion of the browser market, but what would be the impact if webservers took his advice globally? On other browsers?
On Adobe’s share price?
The issue here is not just Safari and HTML5 Video…
this is a great blog post on Youtube pointing out the differences and why youtube is still flash video
http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html
How many corporate or education institutions can run HTML5 video as well?
I like the clean approach that HTML5 video could offer, but it still doesn’t.
I think the point he makes is that if they DID serve HTML5 as an alternative to Flash Video, why wouldn’t they prioritise it first? Not so much that you should do it anyway.