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 ...

We’ve showed you where on the web you can find practical examples of HTML5 — like Google’s homepage, Scribd’s document viewer and Vimeo’s new video player. However, to really see the bleeding edge of ...

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 ...

HTML5 is growing in importance and will continue to be a dominant platform for many use cases for the foreseeable future. Enterprise architects need to consider weaving HTML5 capabilities into their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HTML5 and the gaggle of related technologies following it down the standards track are set to modernize the technology of the web. HTML5 is an umbrella term that is often used to include HTML5 itself, ...

You know a technology’s future doesn’t look promising when even the company that manages it has started offering a toolset for the competing approach. In August ...

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 ...