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 ...

This story on Adobe Flash was supposed to turn out a bit differently. Instead, most of the proprietors of Flash-reliant websites I contacted didn't want to talk at ...

Believe it or not, Flash still has an ardent fan club. The once-ubiquitous media player for browsers has taken its lumps, thanks in large part to security issues. However, diehards remain in Flash’s ...

Twitch has started the process that will see its video player transition away from Flash, at a time when prominent figures in the world of tech are calling for an end to Adobe's resource-hungry ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The BBC has finally decided to shake off the shackles of Flash and embrace HTML5 for the desktop version of its popular iPlayer video streaming service. HTML5 is first being rolled in out in a beta, ...

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, ...