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Watch Video…without Flash

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 3, 2009

“Dailymotion is excited to launch a new R&D platform
dedicated to open video formats and web standards:
openvideo.dailymotion.com. You don’t need the Adobe Flash plugin to
watch videos on this platform – the only requirement is the latest
version of Firefox, 3.5 beta, available here.

“No plugins? No Flash?

“Nope – for all content from Motionmakers and Official Users we
are using the new HTML < video > tag, supported by Firefox
3.5, to display the video, and not any proprietary technology.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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