If you’ve got a phone with an HTML5 compliant browser, you’ll probably want to check out YouTube’s new mobile site, which is rolling out over the next few hours ...

The mobile version of Google’s video-sharing website received an upgrade Thursday. The new m.youtube.com has a bunch of new features, including high-quality video playback in the browser using HTML5.

YouTube will also be able to roll out new features to the mobile site much more quickly than native apps are updated. And since it’s written in HTML5, the new site could potentially offer mobile users ...

Google has announced today, five years after introducing a test version of the feature, that HTML5 video on YouTube is now the default setting for video playback ...

Despite the availability of the HTML5 player on YouTube, enabling and using it may not be clear for some people. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to ...

Everyone hates Flash, right? You have to install a plug-in, it’s resource intensive, it doesn’t work on mobile, and it causes all sorts of security problems ...

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 ...

I've read about how HTML5 will change the way I use the web, but it seems like the biggest example of HTML5 in action is on sites like YouTube—which don't support ...

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 ...

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Google may have lost Twitch.tv to Amazon, but it still wants in on the live-streaming gaming market. The company has announced that YouTube live streaming now supports 60 FPS 1080p and 720p video ...

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