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 ...

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 ...

Say farewell to Flash on YouTube. Four years after the Google-owned video site started playing around with HTML5, YouTube now uses HTML5 by default in Chrome ...

If you're running Chrome or Safari as your main browser, Google's now offering up YouTube videos without Flash. That's right—fewer system hangs, browser crashes ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

YouTube yesterday announced it has begun using HTML5 video by default for all playback on its website, marking a substantial step in its gradual move away from Flash ...

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 ...

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 ...