HTML5 video
Support for HTML5 video has been steadily increasing. In June 2013, Netflix added support for HTML5 video. In January 2015, YouTube switched to using HTML5 video instead of Flash by default. In December 2015, Facebook switched from Flash to HTML5 for all video content.
Upload components
Upload components allow for bypassing the HTML upload restrictions and disadvantages noted previously. An upload component is a plug-in which allows uploading files from a client to a server. Usually upload components are developed by third party companies and can be integrated with any website on any platform. The user's Web browser will display the embedded upload component as a part of the web page. 
Upload components can be built with various technologies: Flash, Silverlight, Java, ActiveX, and HTML5.
The W3C community is in the process of developing a HTML5 standard, the full specification of which is expected by 2014. HTML5 is supposed to support multimedia content without any plug-ins or components. For upload functionality, new HTML5 APIs offer a wide variety of new features, including access to the client's file system and dynamic request-generating and processing of images.