Video sharing site Vimeo has taken the HTML5 plunge one step further with a brand new "universal" embeddable player aimed at mobile devices like the iPhone or the iPad. Vimeo's new "Universal Player" ...

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, ...

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Vimeo launched an HTML5-based video playback site at the beginning of the year, but it is now enabling users to embed its videos with a new Universal Player that can detect the viewer's client and ...

Video site Vimeo will begin rolling out support Thursday for HTML5 with a new player that runs natively in current generation browsers. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before ...

It represents the culmination of four years of work, and was enabled by several recent additions to the HTML5 video specification. MediaSource Extensions allowed YouTube to provide adaptive bitrate ...

YouTube made waves Wednesday evening when it announced a Flash-less HTML5 video player. And now, mere months after rolling out a mobile-friendly site for iPhone and ...

The HTML5 version of YouTube’s video player has been seeing steady improvements lately and is rapidly approaching feature parity with the Flash version, according ...

If your browser supports HTML5 you can opt into the experimental HTML5 video playback on YouTube. Not only will you get smoother video playback—goodbye Flash!—but ...

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 ...