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Vimeo also implements support for the HTML5 standard

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Following the world's largest video hosting YouTube, said recently about the long-term support web standards HTML5, which will allow users to do without installing Adobe Flash plugin for viewing videos on a similar initiative and announced a competing service Vimeo.



Beginning Thursday Vimeo video service began offering its users a new option, which gives the opportunity to switch to the player with support for standard HTML5. This option is implemented as a link under each video, and, click on it quite a time. After this resource will remember user preferences and the next session will show exactly the player with HTML5 functionality.

The list of browsers that support realized on Vimeo new features include the latest versions of Google Chrome and Apple Safari, and Internet Explorer installed to complement Chrome Frame. Other browsers simply do not display a link to go to HTML5 mode. It Vimeo says the new version of the player with support for HTML5 working with 90 percent of the library videos downloaded on the service last year, and over time this number will grow.

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