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This article has been cross-posted from our partner site, Technologizer. Flash vs. HTML5. HTML5 vs. Flash. Whatever your take on the respective merits of the two high-profile technologies for creating ...
Google released a feature Wednesday that automatically converts Flash into HTML5 markup language when uploaded to AdWords. It will help mobile devices that cannot read Flash render advertisements on ...
Most sites today are built with Flash. Most sites are thusly archaic. Adobe, the developer behind the still-ubiquitous multimedia platform, is tempering the impending takeover by rival HTML5 with the ...
Adobe's Flash platform is coming under increased scrutiny as the iPad gets ready to ship. As a number of big players start thinking about their HTML5 strategy, it's clear that the “Flash issue” is on ...
Steve Jobs has been vindicated yet again. His April 2010 letter explaining Apple’s decision to forbid Flash on its mobile devices has proved to be a death knell for Adobe as almost 18 months later, ...
Google has weighed in heavily in favor of HTML5, but engineers at Google-owned YouTube maintain Flash is still the best platform for video distribution In the ongoing ...
5 years is forever in the tech industry. I could easily see it largely replacing Flash for non-DRM sites. They may solve the DRM problem within 5 years, too. Flash will not be completely gone in 5 ...
Adobe’s Flash Player, a stalwart technology for rich Internet media applications for years, continues to lose its prominence, with Google set to designate HTML5 as the preferred option in its Chrome ...
On Tuesday, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch fired back, claiming that Flash is plenty capable of running on the iPhone and suggesting that Apple hasn't shown interest in supporting the technology. As evidence ...
Following this week's demonstration of the Unreal engine running on Flash 11 and ongoing rumours about HTML5's performance on iOS 5, we returned to a current favourite, asking the Mavens: Is Unreal ...
According to new research from HTTP Archive, which regularly scans the internet's most popular destinations, the average size of a single web page is now 965 kilobytes (KB), up more than 30% from last ...