Contemporary browsers are much more than just a window into the World Wide Web: Browser developers have turned the software into sophisticated application platforms in their own right. But browsers ...

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 ...

Concluding HTML version numbers are a relic of a bygone age, Ian Hickson adopts a "living document" approach. Not so the W3C standards group. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The W3C won't finalize the latest iteration of HTML until 2014, but there are plenty of reasons, from better video to cleaner code to improved user interaction, to incorporate HTML5 into current Web ...

"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 ...

The core idea behind HTML 5, the latest proposed version of the Web’s foundation markup language, is to make all resources, not just text and links, widely and uniformly usable across all platforms.