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 ...

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 ...

Flash has taken quite a beating lately by everyone from Apple (no Flash on iPad or iPhones) to YouTube (transitioning to HTML5 video) to users sick of security ...

Google Chrome has replaced Adobe Flash with HTML5 in its latest version, according to an Engadget report by Billy Steele. “Google proposed making HTML5 the default over Flash in its Chrome browser ...

As if Adobe's Flash Player needed another nail in its coffin, it nevertheless received yet another one this weekend from Facebook. The world's largest social playground announced that it recently ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

This article appears in the February/March 2012 issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. When I was 6 years old, I had metal-capped front teeth, a lazy eye, ...

Ding dong, Flash is dead. Well, not quite — Adobe’s announcement that it will now “encourage content creators to build with new Web standards” such as HTML5 is a direct blow against Flash, but Flash ...

Google on Tuesday unveiled a new experimental tool for developers called Swiffy, which converts some .SWF Flash files into HTML5 code compatible with devices like the iPhone and iPad. Swiffy is ...

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 ...