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 ...

Shumway, Mozilla’s technology experiment to build an efficient, web-native renderer for Flash files, has now landed in the latest Firefox Nightly builds. The idea behind this project – which is still ...

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 ...

Adobe Flash is going down! Flash has been a boil on the butt of the Internet for years, but we’ve just put up with it despite the often horrid performance and numerous security lapses. However, some ...

It feels like we keep saying it year after year, but Flash’s days really are numbered — and one of the largest Flash video streaming sites on the web, Twitch, is about to hit the button and switch to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

HTML5 now the "best solution" for browser content across mobile platforms, Adobe admits... Adobe is ending development of its Flash Player on mobile devices to focus on HTML5 - a year and a half after ...

Actually, no current mobile operating system supports Flash. It's not just the popularity of iOS devices that has driven Flash usage, it's the entire smartphone and tablet marketplace. Adobe ...

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 ...