"No question, [the] world is going HTML5," said Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at Gartner Symposium last week. He's not alone. Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls it "the next step in browsers," while Apple's ...

Emotional disagreements between two groups are disrupting the creation of the high-profile standard at the heart of the next-generation Web. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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The World Wide Web Consortium finishes an update to this seminal Internet technology, but with two organizations in charge of the same Web standard, charting the Web's future is a mess. Stephen ...

Microsoft has been beating the HTML5 drum increasingly loudly as its HTML5-compliant Internet Explorer (IE) 9 browser approaches the finish line. Company execs have said HTML5 is central to the ...

Developers have been creating financially successful games with web technologies for many years: Travian was successful using static web pages and Farmville ploughed an entirely new furrow using Flash ...

No emerging technology on the web has been more touted than HTML5. But what does it mean for users and developers. This article takes you through the real-life impact this monster new standard is ...

Flash games were all the rage in the late 2000s to mid-2010s, and thousands of people still play them to this day. But Flash software came with a host of problems, from hackers to incompatibility ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Controversy has erupted in the past few months regarding the future of video over the Internet, ...

HTML5 heralds some nifty new features and the potential for sparking a Web programming paradigm shift, and as everyone who has read the tech press knows, there is nothing like HTML5 for fixing the ...

With his new collection, “Form Follows Function,” Jongmin Kim provides an addictively interactive demostration of what beauty and interactivity HTML5 is capable of helping to create. It’s impossible ...