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 ...

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.

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 ...

Quite a while back Google launched a demonstration of what YouTube would look and function like if it used HTML5’s video tag instead of the Flash player. The single ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Well, YouTube says in a blog post that it was waiting for HTML5 to mature and improve -- it was still fairly experimental back then. Now, however, the standard is widely adopted and has plenty going ...

I've *never* had ClickToPlugin fail to load HTML5 video on youtube.com, but it tends to fail silently for embedded YouTube videos on other sites. But most of the time I don't load embedded videos ...