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 ...

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 ...

Twitch is about to get a whole lot friendlier to the anti-Adobe Flash crowd. The game streaming site is starting to release its HTML5-based video player for the web in small increments. First up are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In what may be the final nail in the coffin for Flash, Facebook has now abandoned the technology in ...

Twitch is moving closer and closer to HTML5 land and away from Flash land. Twitch has taken another step in redesigning the site's video player to be HTML5-based. The new player features controls ...

This article appears in the February/March 2012 issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. When I was 6 years old, I had metal-capped front teeth, a lazy eye, ...

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 BBC has finally decided to shake off the shackles of Flash and embrace HTML5 for the desktop version of its popular iPlayer video streaming service. HTML5 is first being rolled in out in a beta, ...

Samit Sarkar (he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 17 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. Twitch is moving from a Flash-based video ...

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 ...