(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 ...

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" ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In my own testing, the HTML5 player loads a bit faster than the Flash version. Thankfully, it doesn’t run into any annoying rebuffering issues as you jump around the video, a common problem with Vimeo ...