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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Firefox and Safari partially support it, Google's Wave and Chrome projects are banking on it, and most web developers are ecstatic about what it means. It's HTML5, and if you're not exactly sure what ...

Let’s take a quick look at the attention grabbing headline that was issued for maximum publicity rather than maximum fact: Mark Zuckerberg called Facebook’s HTML5 app “one of the biggest mistakes if ...

HTML5 is enabling open, cross-platform rich-media standards that will help brands? and agencies? display advertising achieve the compelling creative and reach across mobile devices they have been ...

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 ...

Editors Note: This is a guest post by Carlos Nazareno, an interactive media artist with a great deal of flash experience. He felt he had an interesting take on the Flash vs. HTML 5 saga and we agreed, ...