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 ...

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 ...

Want to impress your techie friends? Ask them what they think of the W3C’s recent adoption of HTML5 standards. You’re sure to get some tech cred if you drop that into cocktail conversation. The W3C, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Long and painful is the road of overcoming buzzwords and catchphrases in the interactive space. I’ve had to isolate the specific qualities that result in a “Web 2.0” solution. I’ve had to “make social ...