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 ...

Sometimes you want to embed a funny cat video from YouTube on your blog post or website, but the particular video is full of a long, boring block of time where the cat does nothing. Wouldn’t it be ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Google’s YouTube unit has announced support for HTML5 ...

Apple started the war on Flash, but Google may be the company to finish it. Five years after the search giant introduced HTML5 video as an option on YouTube, Google ...

Here is one more nail in Flash’s coffin: starting today, YouTube defaults to using HTML5 video on all modern browsers, including Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and the ...

In a blow to proprietary rich Internet plug-ins, YouTube, which had been a stalwart supporter of Adobe’s Flash plug-in technology, revealed this week that it now ...

Up until now, talk around HTML5 has largely focused on its promise, without many major sites actually implementing HTML5-specific features as anything more than tech demos. Today, YouTube is taking ...

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 ...