The battle between HTML5 and Flash to be the dominant means for video playback on the Web is nothing less than epic. With major culture and technology players like Steve Jobs looking to bend the ...

While Adobe moves away from Flash, YouTube is continuing its push for Google’s open source WebM format by adding support for 1080p playback to its HTML5 player. Other new HTML5 features include native ...

YouTube made waves Wednesday evening when it announced a Flash-less HTML5 video player. And now, mere months after rolling out a mobile-friendly site for iPhone and ...

If you're running Chrome or Safari as your main browser, Google's now offering up YouTube videos without Flash. That's right—fewer system hangs, browser crashes ...

YouTube on Wednesday announced that the popular video-sharing Website will now support HTML5 for video playback. HTML5, for the uninitiated, is an in-development Web standard that aims to add various ...

Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE) seems to be taking the next step to replace Flash, by releasing a free preview of its new open-standards animation designer. Known as Adobe Edge, the tool uses HTML5, CSS3, ...

And it’s called Smokescreen. The code is essentially a Flash player, but written in JavaScript. Its purpose is to take Flash content and then re-encode it to a cross-platform JavaScript in real time.

I use Safari and don't have flash installed and I'm a heavy user. about 2/3 of the sites I visit will display an HTML5 video player, the others will say I'm missing flash and for those I used to fire ...

YouTube has offered HTML5 functionality for many years now, so it seems overdue for the company to finally make this the standard platform. You can read the full details of YouTube’s HTML5 benefits ...