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 ...

(CBS) - Adobe announced Wednesday it will abandon its mobile Flash Player, instead switching support to HTML5. ZDNET obtained an email meant for Adobe's partners Tuesday, which said "Adobe is stopping ...

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 ...

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 ...

The HTML5 version of YouTube’s video player has been seeing steady improvements lately and is rapidly approaching feature parity with the Flash version, according ...

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 ...

While Adobe moves away from Flash, YouTube is continuing its push for Google’s open source WebM format by adding support for 1080p playback to its HTML5 player. Other new HTML5 features include native ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HTML5 is now the default setting for video playback on YouTube when using Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and beta versions of Firefox. If you needed any more evidence to ...