On 2016-04-02, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: >> >> I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth mentioning >> that BBC IPlayer now works without Flash. If you go to the BBC IPlayer >> web page it says you can access the programs using HTML5. You just have >> to install a cookie to do this. It's still in beta but it works for me, >> at least with recent versions of Firefox and Chromium. > > I don't think I've ever installed a cookie. How would I do this?
I would guess the site installs the cookie which indicates you've opted in for the HTML5 beta rather than flash (like YouTube used to do). > Is it one cookie to make the browser entirely HTML5, or is it a > different cookie for every site? > > Would I know that a movie was being played with HTML5 as opposed to flash? I imagine if you right-clicked inside the screen you'd know pretty quickly if it was flash or HTML5, although I don't know the IPlayer as I'm not in the UK (but apparently there's also a "reminder banner"). > When flash streams a movie, a copy is downloaded somewhere on my > disk. One beneficial effect of this is that if I click the slider to > an earlier point in the movie, the player plays instantly from that > point, without a wait for buffering. Is that the same with HTML5, > or is it truly streaming (with no local copy on the disk)? > > Is it easy to revert to flash if I don't like HTML5? Clear the cookie probably, and you're back to where you started. > Cheers, > David. > > -- Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag
