Adobe Flash, once the de-facto standard for media playback on the web, has lost favor in the industry due to increasing concerns over security and performance. At the ...

Facebook has moved to HTML5 by default in all browsers for web videos that appears on its News Feed, Pages and the embedded Facebook video player. Setting Adobe's Flash aside for video marks a ...

This article appears in the February/March 2012 issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. When I was 6 years old, I had metal-capped front teeth, a lazy eye, ...

As if Adobe's Flash Player needed another nail in its coffin, it nevertheless received yet another one this weekend from Facebook. The world's largest social playground announced that it recently ...

Flash has taken quite a beating lately by everyone from Apple (no Flash on iPad or iPhones) to YouTube (transitioning to HTML5 video) to users sick of security ...

Amazon is becoming the latest company to start moving beyond Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight to adopt native HTML5 web video. The company said today that it has begun to roll out a new HTML5 web ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In what may be the final nail in the coffin for Flash, Facebook has now abandoned the technology in ...

Samit Sarkar (he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 17 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. Twitch is moving from a Flash-based video ...

Yet another nail in Flash's coffin. Amazon-owned live video streaming platform Twitch.TV is dropping Flash in favor of JavaScript and HTML 5. On Wednesday, July 22, Twitch revealed that it would be ...

The HTML5 web standard is still some way from widespread adoption - and completion, we might add - but that isn't stopping some of the web's biggest names from showcasing what it can do. Showing off ...

Twitch is moving closer and closer to HTML5 land and away from Flash land. Twitch has taken another step in redesigning the site's video player to be HTML5-based. The new player features controls ...

Twitch, the extremely popular website mostly dedicated to video game streaming, has announced that they have begun transitioning away from Flash in favor of HTML5 and JavaScript for their video player ...