Concluding HTML version numbers are a relic of a bygone age, Ian Hickson adopts a "living document" approach. Not so the W3C standards group. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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 ...

HTML5 has been billed as a means for developers to create modern Web applications, complete with support for multimedia functionality like video and Canvas 2D. Its emergence has led to questions about ...

If you want to improve your search rankings, better support mobile readers, and transform your development process, it's time to integrate HTML5 Much of the coverage of HTML5 over the last couple of ...

HTML5 hasn’t yet been formally codified, but it was born in 2004 and has been undergoing steady work and maintenance since. In the ’90s, HTML discussion centered around topics like font coloration, or ...

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 ...

Apple has relaunched its entire website with a new design using HTML5, adding a darker, glossy navigation bar and speedy new animated page layouts for Mac and iPod pages. The redesign officially ...

The web standards body W3C has taken the next step towards baking support for DRM (digital rights management) into HTML. W3C last Friday announced the publication of the first draft of the Encrypted ...

An assessment of the new Amazon Kindle Fire's capabilities a web app client found it a "competent but minimal HTML5 platform" but reports that a key feature, its Silk server-side accelerated browsing ...