Believe it or not, Flash still has an ardent fan club. The once-ubiquitous media player for browsers has taken its lumps, thanks in large part to security issues. However, diehards remain in Flash’s ...

Flash has taken quite a beating lately by everyone from Apple (no Flash on iPad or iPhones) to YouTube (transitioning to HTML5 video) to users sick of security ...

Google this week added support for HTML5 playback of videos in its own Chrome browser as well as Safari from Apple. The new feature allows users to watch video without the longstanding Internet ...

Flash isn’t immune to the complexity brought to us by the proliferation of operating systems and browsers, but it has been dealing with them for much longer. When the Flash plug-in doesn’t crash, the ...

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 ...

The update to Chrome 55 means that many internet sites will default to HTML5 rather than Flash, according to a story on Slash Gear. Google wanted to default to HTML5 earlier, mainly attributed to ...

You know a technology’s future doesn’t look promising when even the company that manages it has started offering a toolset for the competing approach. In August ...

About a year ago, I wrote a post about Apple's "blind spot" for Flash. I took more heat for that post than anything else I've written here other than political posts. It opened my eyes to the fact ...

Research in Motion will continue to use Adobe Flash Player, at least for the BlackBerry Playbook tablet, even after Adobe announced it will discontinue Flash for the mobile Web. RIM also said in a ...

You’ve probably heard about HTML5 plenty of times recently, but you may not know too much about what it can do. Apple wants to change that with its new site that showcases some of HTML5’s features and ...