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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’ve been writing about HTML5 for quite a while, but, until today, the actual HTML5 specs and standards were still moving targets. Now, however, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced that ...

If HTML5 editor Ian Hickson’s recent decision to remove the element from the HTML5 specification left you scratching your head, you’re not alone. The W3C, the group that oversees HTML5, feels the same ...

Despite making the vast majority of its money from hardware sales, Apple is investing heavily in shaping the future of software. One example of this pertains to HTML 5 and related web standards. While ...

Since the advent of the Internet, the non-initiates who try to understand a new technology often face not too little information, but too much. HTML5 is no exception. If anything, information about ...

A newly proposed web standard could bring DRM to web video. The Encrypted Media Extensions draft – which is backed by the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Netflix – defines a framework for bringing DRM ...

The Web standards group clarifies that its HTML5 logo really is just for HTML5. To tout your site's use of WOFF, SVG, and CSS, there are smaller, gray icons. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...