The increasingly competitive browser market has at last created an environment in which emerging Web standards can flourish. One of the harbingers of the open Web renaissance is HTML 5, the next major ...

LongTail Video, the creators of JW Player, have found in a study that as much as 74% of the browser market now supports HTML5 video, up from 66% in January. The study, The State of HTML5 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 ...

Yesterday, I covered HTML 5 and how it will change the web. Many companies -- such as Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), and Adobe (ADBE) â€" have strong financial interests in HTML 5's ...

Slowly but surely, HTML5 browsers have come to enable rich video experiences. In this article, you’ll learn how to go beyond basic video playback by adding playlists, chapter markers, poster frames, ...

Here is one more nail in Flash’s coffin: starting today, YouTube defaults to using HTML5 video on all modern browsers, including Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and the ...

With the rise of HTML5 vying for video supremacy on the Web, workarounds for disabling Flash Player continue to pop up, allowing users to get a smoother, faster video-viewing experience online. Joe ...

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The main object of HTML5 specification is to transfer playback of multimedia video and audio to the browser itself without installing additional plug-ins. However, browser developers cannot decide on ...

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 ...