The reasons given for the switch could have been easily mitigated. At NYT we used an HTML5 player by default and then when HTML5 isn&#x27;t supported we downgrade to a flash video container, while still maintaining the HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;Javascript player controls. We also have a bridge from Actionscript to Javascript for logging. We barley have to update the flash video container, it just acts as a viewport for video.