As the battle for web standards continues, HTML5 is quickly gaining ground over Flash. According to MeFeedia, which recently surveyed sites using both Flash and HTML5 to deliver online video, 54% of web video is now available in HTML5, up from just 10% five months ago. Web developers are quickly making the switch to HTML5 faster than ever, or at least making content available using either standard. Many websites can now tell the difference between devices trying to access online video, then loading the content using the best format for that particular device.

Flash is currently still the dominant player on desktop computers, but its quickly losing ground to HTML5. Mobile devices now make up a huger percentage of video streaming and Flash doesn’t work as well on the few devices that support it. Adobe hasn’t ever been able to demonstrate Flash performing satisfactorily to Steve Jobs and because of this, Flash hasn’t been made available for iOS devices (at least not officially). This may change at some point in the future, however, as Apple recently loosened the rules for app developers. iOS users may one day be able to watch Flash content officially, but we doubt it will be anytime soon.  Apple and Adobe are still not on the best of terms at the moment. Flash also has a very poor track record when it comes to video performance on mobile devices. as more people start watching videos on their mobiles phones, HTML5 is currently the easiest solution for web developers to use. As long as Adobe doesn’t improve the performance of Flash on mobile devices, they will not be able to compete with HTML5.

Steve Jobs offered his thoughts on on Flash six months ago and concluded that Flash was an inferior technology rooted in the past and that the future of web development is HTML5. It appears that the web is now turning its back on Flash and embrace HTML5, just as Steve predicted. Most people as of right now can’t even tell the difference between Flash and HTML5 content and that is a good thing. As long as their competition in the marketplace, developers will be forced to continue making innovations in order to survive. This is good for peole like us and as long as people continue to watch thier favorite shows online, does it really matter what web standard Hulu and other sites are using?

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Source: Mefeedia