Google’s new HTML5 YouTube player has received a number of major updates recently to improve its features and performance, and is now coming on par with YouTube’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Streamroot's Erica Beavers looks at the inner workings and UI elements of prominent HTML5 players such as Brightcove, Ooyala, JWPlayer, and Bitdash, and how they differ from their Flash predecessors, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yokto is a newly launched video platform which offers an embeddable player that intelligently switches between a Flash-based interface or HTML5, depending on the device being used to view the content.

Adobe has also faced numerous security problems with Flash. Most recently, the company acknowledged a critical vulnerability in the Flash player that could allow an attacker to take over users' ...

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 ...

Jason Perlow: I received the following e-mail from a web and Flash developer that works for a large advertising/media production agency. With the exception of some minor editing to flow for style, the ...