The battle between Adobe Flash and HTML5 continues to rage, but in the meantime, YouTube has come up with a solution that serves up both players. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers ...

In January, YouTube revealed that the site’s video player now attempts to use HTML5 before relying on Adobe Flash Player for video playback. YouTube serves as a ...

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 ...

Google is continuing its full-fledged push for native HTML5 by adding support today for 1080p full-HD video playback to its HTML5 player on YouTube's website. And even further HTML5 features released ...

Google has been keeping an eye on HTML5 as an alternative to Flash for at least four years. In its announcement, Google listed several reasons it’s excited about HTML5, not the least of which is the ...

In a blow to proprietary rich Internet plug-ins, YouTube, which had been a stalwart supporter of Adobe’s Flash plug-in technology, revealed this week that it now ...

YouTube today announced it has finally stopped using Adobe Flash by default. The site now uses its HTML5 video player by default in Google's Chrome, Microsoft's IE11 ...

Google has weighed in heavily in favor of HTML5, but engineers at Google-owned YouTube maintain Flash is still the best platform for video distribution In the ongoing ...

If you're running Chrome or Safari as your main browser, Google's now offering up YouTube videos without Flash. That's right—fewer system hangs, browser crashes ...