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 ...

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Twitch is about to get a whole lot friendlier to the anti-Adobe Flash crowd. The game streaming site is starting to release its HTML5-based video player for the web in small increments. First up are ...

Twitch has started the process that will see its video player transition away from Flash, at a time when prominent figures in the world of tech are calling for an end to Adobe's resource-hungry ...

For all the talk of how HTML5 will be the future of the Web, and how, in particular, it will replace Flash for rich interactive and animated content, the reality is that the technology is out of reach ...

When Macromedia released its first version of Flash in 1996 there were unequivocal yelps of joy from the web design community. It's hard to imagine today, with Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft extolling ...

Flash games and movies defined an era. The multimedia platform may have become obsolete for some, but many animators and devs ...

When Adobe announced that it was planning an “end of life” for Flash yesterday, it shouldn’t have taken anyone by surprise. The web-defining software — once used for all kinds of browser audio and ...

The Flash platform—that thing Adobe is always asking for you to update—is on life support. True, Adobe last released an update of their Flash Player less than a month ago, fixing the latest round of ...