Amazon is becoming the latest company to start moving beyond Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight to adopt native HTML5 web video. The company said today that it has begun to roll out a new HTML5 web ...

Adobe Flash, once the de-facto standard for media playback on the web, has lost favor in the industry due to increasing concerns over security and performance. At the ...

There's no need to install those annoying plug-ins anymore as YouTube has dropped Adobe's Flash and will be using the HTML5 player by default. Armed with support for ...

Is Adobe switching to HTML5 video? No, but a recent release from Adobe aims to make work easier for video publishers who have to juggle the demands of Flash and HTML5 video. Adobe has released the ...

As if Adobe's Flash Player needed another nail in its coffin, it nevertheless received yet another one this weekend from Facebook. The world's largest social playground announced that it recently ...

The HTML5 web standard is still some way from widespread adoption - and completion, we might add - but that isn't stopping some of the web's biggest names from showcasing what it can do. Showing off ...

It represents the culmination of four years of work, and was enabled by several recent additions to the HTML5 video specification. MediaSource Extensions allowed YouTube to provide adaptive bitrate ...

The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened — YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for ...