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Amazon on Wednesday launched support for HTML5 Web apps in its Mobile App Distribution Program. Developers can now submit URLs for their HTML5 apps to Amazon and leverage the company’s In-App ...

There’s been lots written about the politics and process of the emerging HTML5 specification (see “What to expect from HTML5” and “How HTML5 will change the Web,” as just two examples), but what ...

In terms of the scope and effort, the HTML5 effort has an earlier historical analogy in the HTML 3.0 spec. Back in April of 1995, the HTML 3.0 spec was drafted as a backwards-compatible way of adding ...

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 ...

In proper fashion, Facebook didn't make the new HTML5 web app available for the iPad, leaving users to the bulky desktop site while browsing in Safari. But with this trick, you can use Facebook's ...

If you’ve ever tried to wrestled your way through the complexities of the HTML5 specification, we’ve got good news — there’s now a “web developer edition.” The main HTML5 spec can be overwhelming for ...

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 ...

If your organisation is still getting to grips with smartphone apps it may be in for a shock - an even newer class of app is bearing down, one which promises to cut multi-platform development hassles ...

A security researcher has found a loophole in how the HTML5 Web Storage standard is implemented in the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Apple Safari browsers that could allow malicious websites ...