Much has been said about Steve Jobs' "crusade" against Adobe as the primary mover of an entire online video industry toward reluctantly supporting a non-Flash platform. In fact, the shift is part of a ...

With Apple's continued embrace of HTML5 video for the iPad and other iOS devices, as well as Google's recent decision to reject H.264 in favor of WebM in its HTML5-compatible Chrome browser, the HTML5 ...

Many tech giants are working to finally kill off Adobe Flash — largely due to the format’s vast bugs and security flaws. And, less than six months after Facebook Chief Security Officer called for ...

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 ...

The online video site has overhauled its video player for shorter waits for video, better sharing, and more accessibility and Web standards support. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

The main object of HTML5 specification is to transfer playback of multimedia video and audio to the browser itself without installing additional plug-ins. However, browser developers cannot decide on ...

HTML5 video is taking the web by storm. Not only has a very public (and contentious) debate unfolded on the web about the efficacy of presenting videos using HTML5 instead of Flash, but momentum is ...

Facebook has moved to HTML5 by default in all browsers for web videos that appears on its News Feed, Pages and the embedded Facebook video player. Setting Adobe's Flash aside for video marks a ...

Here is one more nail in Flash’s coffin: starting today, YouTube defaults to using HTML5 video on all modern browsers, including Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and the ...

Android is an open-source software stack for mobile devices. Developers can access the stack's code and even develop independent applications for free distribution or sale of Google Play. Android can ...

Back in 2010, YouTube introduced HTML5 support for videos, but it was highly experimental at the time. When they introduced HTML5 for the first time, they detailed reasons why they couldn’t yet move ...

P. Petropoulos blocked Flash videos from playing automatically without his permission. Now he wants to block HTML5 videos, as well. On New Year’s Day, I told you how to block videos that play ...