In a blow to proprietary rich Internet plug-ins, YouTube, which had been a stalwart supporter of Adobe’s Flash plug-in technology, revealed this week that it now ...

We haven't exactly been secretive about our distaste for Adobe's Flash Player here at TUAW. Flash on the Mac has traditionally been a terrible resource hog, and while the pre-release of Flash Player ...

Between the iPad’s blocking of Flash earlier this year and the huge wave of ad campaigns, open letters, and debates that followed, it seems that everyone has an opinion on the merits (or lack thereof) ...

Google this week added support for HTML5 playback of videos in its own Chrome browser as well as Safari from Apple. The new feature allows users to watch video without the longstanding Internet ...

Google has weighed in heavily in favor of HTML5, but engineers at Google-owned YouTube maintain Flash is still the best platform for video distribution In the ongoing ...

Sure, HTML5 adds support for Web video that doesn't need Flash. But there are many reasons Adobe's plug-in still is necessary, YouTube says. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The battle between Adobe Flash and HTML5 continues to rage, but in the meantime, YouTube has come up with a solution that serves up both players. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers ...

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 ...