A proposal drafted by Microsoft, Google and Netflix to add support for encrypted media playback in HTML5, has sparked a debate on the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) HTML public mailing list. The ...

What was Microsoft doing at the recent HTML5 Video Summit in Los Angeles? Explaining to the audience how its video solutions take advantage of HTML5. The session was led by Alex Zambelli, media ...

The web standards body W3C is being petitioned by a consortium of 27 organisations to reject proposals that would make it easier to support DRM-protected media in HTML5-based sites. The draft ...

Adobe Flash, once the de-facto standard for media playback on the web, has lost favor in the industry due to increasing concerns over security and performance. At the ...

Netflix users on Windows and OS X currently depend on Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin to watch videos. With Silverlight no longer under active development, the company is looking at alternative ...

Google today announced the launch of DoubleClick Studio Layouts, a new production tool for building and publishing rich media and HTML5 ads. The release is available to everyone starting today, though ...