The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened — YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for ...

Sure, HTML5 adds support for Web video that doesn't need Flash. But there are many reasons Adobe's plug-in still is necessary, YouTube says. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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Adobe announced in 2017 that Adobe Flash Player, better known over the years simply as "Flash," would no longer be supported after December 2020. Twitter users asked why — Flash had been around for 24 ...

HTML5 is now the default setting for video playback on YouTube when using Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and beta versions of Firefox. If you needed any more evidence to ...

An internet plug-in that was responsible for some of the internet's best-loved viral animations has officially been discontinued. On 1 January software company Adobe stopped supporting and updating ...