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 ...

Twitch is about to get a whole lot friendlier to the anti-Adobe Flash crowd. The game streaming site is starting to release its HTML5-based video player for the web in small increments. First up are ...

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 ...

Google Chrome has replaced Adobe Flash with HTML5 in its latest version, according to an Engadget report by Billy Steele. “Google proposed making HTML5 the default over Flash in its Chrome browser ...

Adobe Flash is going down! Flash has been a boil on the butt of the Internet for years, but we’ve just put up with it despite the often horrid performance and numerous security lapses. However, some ...

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 ...

Search and advertising giant Google has taken one more step in relegating Flash to the pages of history. From July this year, it will no longer accept Flash display ads. From June 30, developers with ...

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, ...

Ding dong, Flash is dead. Well, not quite — Adobe’s announcement that it will now “encourage content creators to build with new Web standards” such as HTML5 is a direct blow against Flash, but Flash ...

Google this week added support for HTML5 playback of videos in its own Chrome browser as well as Safari from Apple. The new feature allows users to watch video without the longstanding Internet ...

Google on Tuesday unveiled a new experimental tool for developers called Swiffy, which converts some .SWF Flash files into HTML5 code compatible with devices like the iPhone and iPad. Swiffy is ...

HTML5 now the "best solution" for browser content across mobile platforms, Adobe admits... Adobe is ending development of its Flash Player on mobile devices to focus on HTML5 - a year and a half after ...