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 ...

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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 has some bad news for those of you hoping the site would soon ditch Flash in favor of HTML5 video tags: It isnt going to happen any time soon. Flash cuts down ...

iOS Devices Who needs flash? YouTube embeds now does HTML5 Seth Weintraub | Jul 24 2010 - 4:53 pm PT 0 Comments ...

Google’s new HTML5 YouTube player has received a number of major updates recently to improve its features and performance, and is now coming on par with YouTube’s ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. The battle lines have been drawn. It's one side or the ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...