I recently pushed out a change that will use the iframe style embedding for YouTube videos. So it should use the HTML5 video if you have opted into YouTube's HTML5 trial. This will only be used for ...

The number of videos on the Web that are now compatible with HTML5 has shot up to 63 percent from just 10 percent a year ago, according to video sharing site Mefeedia. Lance Whitney Contributing ...

Slowly but surely, HTML5 browsers have come to enable rich video experiences. In this article, you’ll learn how to go beyond basic video playback by adding playlists, chapter markers, poster frames, ...

Developers often focus on creating elegant code that is short and straightforward. However, this can kill browser performance when it fails to respect the way browsers actually render applications, ...

After igniting a hailstorm of controversy over its intent to drop HTML5's H.264 support from its Chrome browser, Google has reaffirmed its intent to push its own open WebM video codec via Flash-like ...

Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML standard, declares that a DRM Web video from Microsoft, Google, and Netflix would be unethical and ineffectual. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Whatever you may think about the Apple-Adobe battle over Flash on the iPad, it’s clear that Apple’s not going to move on the matter. And now CBS.com is trialling Web videos in iPad-friendly HTML5 ...

Thanks to the availability of a couple of premium video extensions that it’s been helping to develop along with other Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) members, Netflix today is announcing support for ...

Video game streaming focussed site Twitch has announced that it has started to roll out video player controls coded in HTML5. It notes, on the official Twitch blog, that this move from Flash to HTML5 ...

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 ...

(Note: Mobile browsers typically do not allow a video clip to start automatically without the viewer interacting with the user interface. As such, test any playlist functionality you’re building on ...