I've read about how HTML5 will change the way I use the web, but it seems like the biggest example of HTML5 in action is on sites like YouTube—which don't support ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Apple started the war on Flash, but Google may be the company to finish it. Five years after the search giant introduced HTML5 video as an option on YouTube, Google ...

Back in 2010, YouTube introduced HTML5 support for videos, but it was highly experimental at the time. When they introduced HTML5 for the first time, they detailed reasons why they couldn’t yet move ...

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 ...

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) ...

Despite the availability of the HTML5 player on YouTube, enabling and using it may not be clear for some people. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to ...

Over the last four years, we've worked with browser vendors and the broader community to close those gaps, and now, YouTube uses HTML5 <video> by default in Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and in beta ...

Well, YouTube says in a blog post that it was waiting for HTML5 to mature and improve -- it was still fairly experimental back then. Now, however, the standard is widely adopted and has plenty going ...