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I'm pretty sure porn can switch to HTML5 <video> tags anyways. Not quite sure why Flash is a requirement there at all.

I think that he was speculating that since popular porn sites are already using flash that there is no need to switch.

Or that there is some unmentioned barrier to switching video formats that porn sites don't have the means or ways to overcome. Either way, his point is unclear and I agree; porn can switch to HTML5 <video> tags when/if there is sufficient browser support.

Or more likely, they will roll out HTML5 video support and use Flash as a seamless fallback, like YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo are publicly beta testing.

youporn already has a mobile version with H264 and <video> tags.

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