So it should use the HTML5 video if you have opted into YouTube's HTML5 trial. This will only be used for new articles, but I went ahead and re-published the article you linked.

This week, The Geek helps a reader who is greeted with lines of code when attempting to view YouTube videos.

This week, The Geek helps a reader who is greeted with lines of code when attempting to view YouTube videos.

The transition from Flash to HTML5 has been in the works for a while now. In January 2010, Google announced the launch of the HTML5 video player, which was being tested out at the time.

Fullscreen APIs: The Fullscreen APIs in HTML5 mean YouTube can offer an immersive full-screen viewing experience with a standard HTML interface. Before this became available, a lot of extra code ...