(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 ...

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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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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 ...

YouTube on Wednesday announced that the popular video-sharing Website will now support HTML5 for video playback. HTML5, for the uninitiated, is an in-development Web standard that aims to add various ...

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 ...

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 ...