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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this article, author Elakkiya Daivam ...

Developers have been creating financially successful games with web technologies for many years: Travian was successful using static web pages and Farmville ploughed an entirely new furrow using Flash ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although the HTML5 spec won’t be finalized until July 2014, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), has scheduled its “last call” for feature-completeness for this May. So what’s missing? According to ...