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Despite the availability of the HTML5 player on YouTube, enabling and using it may not be clear for some people. The desire to move way from Flash and other plugins ...

Vimeo has rebuilt its video player using HTML5, the latest version of the Web programming language that is challenging Adobe Systems’ Flash player in serving up Web video. The use of HTML5, which ...

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 ...

YouTube has offered HTML5 functionality for many years now, so it seems overdue for the company to finally make this the standard platform. You can read the full details of YouTube’s HTML5 benefits ...

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 ...

While Vimeo was one of the first to adopt HTML5 for streaming web video, its player hasn't kept up with the times; it hasn't been very fast or powerful. That's changing with a redesigned player ...

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's slow move out from under Adobe Flash is slow going, but work on the video player is starting to appear. Twitch is about to get a whole lot friendlier to the anti-Adobe Flash crowd. The game ...

YouTube today announced it has finally stopped using Adobe Flash by default. The site now uses its HTML5 video player by default in Google's Chrome, Microsoft's IE11 ...

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, ...

Twitch has started the process that will see its video player transition away from Flash, at a time when prominent figures in the world of tech are calling for an end to Adobe's resource-hungry ...