You are right on some browsers you need flash as the haven't implemented the MSE yet, but still you get adaptive playback. MPEG-DASH is already working nativly through HTML5 in chrome, ie11 win8, chromecast. Firefox currently implements the support and with HLS together you can reach all major platforms as shown in http://www.bitcodin.com/blog/2015/03/mpeg-dash-device-compat....