Reason No. 2: Flash beats Canvas A good way to get a feeling for the new Canvas object in HTML5 is to play a few rounds of FreeCiv, a free, open source version of the classic game Civilization. The ...

Believe it or not, Flash still has an ardent fan club. The once-ubiquitous media player for browsers has taken its lumps, thanks in large part to security issues. However, diehards remain in Flash’s ...

You know a technology’s future doesn’t look promising when even the company that manages it has started offering a toolset for the competing approach. In August ...

A new Apple-approved iPhone and iPad mobile browser from a startup company, set to launch this week, converts video from Adobe Flash to HTML5, though it won't work with Hulu. The new Skyfire browser ...

Google this week added support for HTML5 playback of videos in its own Chrome browser as well as Safari from Apple. The new feature allows users to watch video without the longstanding Internet ...

For Adobe, life has moved on after the infamous Steve Jobs manifesto - even if some of the media outlets haven't let it go. Of course, it became a point of conversation at this morning's Web 2.0 ...

Google aims to make HTML5 the primary experience in Chrome by the fourth quarter of this year, except for a white-list of 10 sites that will run Adobe’s Flash Player. Under the plan revealed by Google ...

But Flash has fallen out of favor over the years as HTML5 emerged as a better — and safer — way of developing rich content for websites. And yet the platform lingers on in corners of enterprise ...

The battle between Adobe Flash and HTML5 continues to rage, but in the meantime, YouTube has come up with a solution that serves up both players. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers ...