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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) declaring the HTML5 standard complete, a significant milestone in the history of the Internet and web application ...

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 ...

It’s not often in the mobile world that you hear of a split in standards development that doesn’t make you groan thinking of the complications that it will imply moving ahead (hello, Android!). But a ...

In the mobile world, “age old” questions are those we’ve been asking for the last couple of years, like whether to build a mobile app or a Web site. Now, there’s no question that HTML5 is changing the ...

This story originally appeared on CNET and is republished with permission. The mobile technology landscape is incredibly confusing. There are numerous choices, ranging from new HTML5 technologies, ...

The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened — YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for ...

Before we begin, we ought to define the terms, HTML5 app and Native app, to prevent ambiguities, and needless arguments in the comments. If you intend to develop a graphic intensive game, you almost ...

Think we'd all be better off if HTML5 could somehow instantly replace Flash overnight? Not necessarily, according to a set of comparisons from Jan Ozer of the Streaming Learning Center website, which ...

Have questions about HTML5 video? You're not alone. StreamingMedia.com recently hosted a webinar on the topic led by Jeff Whatcott, senior vice president of global marketing at Brightcove (the event ...

Allan H was having issues with videos autoplaying in his browser (imagine that!), and read the previous article on this topic written by my esteemed colleague. Unfortunately, the links provided for ...

Attention type nerds, did you know there are online games just for you? It's true, Shape Type is a new HTML5 typography game where you have to drag curve-adjustment tools to perfect letterforms in ...