Twitch is finally transitioning from Flash to HTML5

Yet another nail in Flash’s coffin.

Popular video streaming platform for video games, Twitch, has recently announced that they are making the transition from Flash to HTML5, a more popular and supposedly better standard.

The redesign moves the video controls from Flash to HTML5 and Javascript.

While the video control code has been updated, and is rolling out to the service right now, the underlying video display is still rendered by Adobe Flash. However, the gaming giant also says the transfer is an important step to releasing a full HTML5 player.

Competitor YouTube got rid of Flash a while back by defaulting to HTML5 players, as well, adding insult to injury.

Twitch to ditch Flash for HTML5 and their first update will only affect the players’ controls, while the actual video will still be based on Flash.

Flash has been inundated with problems and vulnerabilities, which make companies question its security (remember the recent zero-day vulnerability). YouTube, however, cited the adoption of Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) and opted for a flash-less experience where there would be no more annoying plug-ins.

“You’ll begin to see the new player on channel pages first”.