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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The explosion of the mobile Web has sparked a debate over the best approach for developing applications that give consumers and employees what they have come to expect: access to whatever form of ...

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 ...

The HTML5 era is already here, it just isn’t evenly distributed yet. Browsers vary in their levels of support for the emerging standard, and developers are pushing the envelope with hacks, experiments ...

HTML5 is supposed to be the next big thing. It represents the point at which the web standard will step up as a viable alternative to platform-specific code. But, if it's truly going to succeed, it ...

I once had a college history professor who would have us map out raw data from old archives. Though a laborious and often futile exercise, he argued that by doing so you can sometimes glean patterns ...