Adobe Releases HTML5 Widget for Video

Have you ever tried to open up a website or video only to find a small clip-art image of that broken file? That’s because you didn’t have Flash, a plug-in for your web-browser that allows you to view videos. Now, with HTML5 and Adobe’s new widget, that won’t matter nearly as much.

Just today, Adobe released a new widget on their widget browser allowing programmers to embed videos in their websites using HTML5, without requiring the Flash Plug-in. If you try to open that video with a browser that does not support HTML5, it will revert back to the Flash plug-in to show the video.

Here is an easier way to understand this. Say your house relies on a certain type of power to generate electricity, but that power fails. Suddenly, the secondary power kicks in and generates the same electricity. This is the same process. If your web browser does not support HTML5, it will revert back to your Flash Plug-in to play the video.

Luckily, most updated web-browsers will easily run HTML5. According to Wired.com, Internet Explorer should be integrating “baked-in” support for HTML5 with Internet Explorer 9.

If you want to avoid online video failures in the near future, we suggest downloading the latest web browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or even Opera. These web browsers support HTML5 and will easily play any HTML5 embedded video.

In the end, nobody needs to suffer. All you really need to do is go to www.Adobe.com and download their latest version of the Flash plug-in. This way, videos will play whether they are embedded with HTML5 or not. If you download that, as well as one of the latest web browsers, you should not have a problem.

This move by Adobe to offer this function to programmers should make web browsing even more universal. Most people should automatically play HTML5 embedded videos, and everyone who can’t will revert to the Flash plug-in as long as they have it. I am no programmer, but if I was, I would be happy to receive such an tool for integrating HTML5 into the currently-too-complicated online world.