An embed code provides HTML markup that makes it possible to stream a YouTube video on an external Web page. However, although individual YouTube videos can be embedded on other Web pages, so can ...

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.

The move to HTML5 video element has also allowed YouTube to begin deprecating its old object-based embed code, and move to iframes.