The popup is dead. The previous version of the player lived in a popup window separate from its main page — not exactly the most seamless experience. NPR has replaced that with a persistent player ...

HTML5 lets you play music through compliant browsers—no "cloud" required. Recently, "cloud"-based music services, from big names like Amazon, Google and Apple, have been getting attention in the press ...

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 ...

NPR launches a new NPR.org audio player today that works smoothly across platforms and deepens listeners' connections with member stations. The site-wide system provides easy access to your listening ...

The main object of HTML5 specification is to transfer playback of multimedia video and audio to the browser itself without installing additional plug-ins. However, browser developers cannot decide on ...