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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 ...

Users of Chrome and Internet Explorer 11, and current beta users of Firefox, have one less reason to use Flash as YouTube begins to serve up its HTML5 player by default. For some time, YouTube has ...

The team encourages developers to start using the iframe API rather than Flash so mobile devices that do not support Flash can easily stream YouTube videos. YouTube has offered HTML5 functionality for ...

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 ...

When Google began soliciting feedback from users about what features they would most like to see in the next version of YouTube, the response was an overwhelmingly enthusiastic request for ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Google’s YouTube unit has announced support for HTML5 ...

It represents the culmination of four years of work, and was enabled by several recent additions to the HTML5 video specification. MediaSource Extensions allowed YouTube to provide adaptive bitrate ...

HTML5 is now the default setting for video playback on YouTube when using Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and beta versions of Firefox. If you needed any more evidence to ...

Last year, YouTube introduced 60 frames per second (fps) video streams and today, it’s bringing the same smooth playback experience to live streaming videos, as well. As Google rightly notes in ...

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 ...

Companies like Google and Mozilla have been talking up HTML5, the latest version of basic markup language for websites, for a while now. HTML5 is supposed to enable ...