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 ...

Vimeo has rebuilt its video player using HTML5, the latest version of the Web programming language that is challenging Adobe Systems’ Flash player in serving up Web video. The use of HTML5, which ...

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 ...

Microsoft released on Wednesday a Firefox browser add-on extending HTML5-based video on the company’s Windows 7 OS. The plug-in enables Firefox users to play H.264-encoded video on HTML5 by using ...

YouTube has offered HTML5 functionality for many years now, so it seems overdue for the company to finally make this the standard platform. You can read the full details of YouTube’s HTML5 benefits ...

Microsoft has released an HTML5 video-player extension for the Chrome browser to counteract Google’s decision to drop support for the most widely used HTML5 video format. Conversely, Microsoft has ...

Twitch is taking steps to improve its video streaming experience by bringing viewers a closed beta of its HTML5 video player. Anyone with a Turbo subscription will be able to join the beta beginning ...

Remember Microsoft’s Silverlight Flash competitor? Few people probably do (and Microsoft has long given up on it), but for the longest time, you needed Silverlight to watch Netflix in your Firefox ...