One of the big fights in technology right now is about how you will watch videos, animations, ads, games, and other stuff on the web in the future. The incumbent technology for a lot of these things ...

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 ...

One of the latest tech buzzwords given wings by the success of the iPhone and iPad is HTML5. Apple has pitched this up-and-coming iteration of the Web’s main building block as everything from an ...

HTML5 rocketed to the forefront with Apple’s decision to forgo Flash and use HTML5 technology to deliver video to the iPad. Actual HTML5 usage, however, has been slowed by low HTML5-compatible browser ...

"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 ...

Although still in draft form, HTML5 is seeing widespread adoption and implementation. But there's still a fair amount of pushback and skepticism about whether HTML5 is really ready for production. At ...

Want to impress your techie friends? Ask them what they think of the W3C’s recent adoption of HTML5 standards. You’re sure to get some tech cred if you drop that into cocktail conversation. The W3C, ...

Why should publishers care about HTML5? Sanders Kleinfeld: HTML5 is the future of digital publishing. If you're a publisher who's interested in staying competitive in the ebook landscape, it's quite ...

Unable to resist a good marketing opportunity, the Web standards group is promoting itself and its new Web technology. What HTML5 actually means, though, remains vague. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

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 ...