Whatever you think of Microsoft's attempt to carve out a new category of "native" HTML5 applications, there's no question that Microsoft's own applications are going to be influenced by what's ...

The problem is that—at least today—only around 50 percent of available browsers support HTML5, and more importantly, the W3C hasn't specified one codec that must play in all browsers.

In its first State of HTML5 Video report, LongTail tracks browser support and format fragmentation.

But HTML5 is so new that we are getting flashbacks to the late 1990s with sites refusing to accept certain browsers. To illustrate this point, Microsoft has an browser test page to show the ...

At VB, Ben Savage, the founder of mobile game developer Spaceport.io, ran through five reasons that take up of HTLM5 was slower than expected in 2012: cross-platform HTML5 development has been slowed ...

The other browsers offer some support, but they’re widely considered to be more buggy — and inconsistent with the way the ideas are implemented in the Mozilla browser.

Apple should change its HTML5 showcase page to reflect the true spirit of the standard: interoperability and cross-browser support.

In any case, the HTML5 drag-and-drop spec smoothes away many of the browser differences. In theory, the cross-browser scripts won’t be necessary as long as all browsers follow the standard in ...

HTML5’s Encrypted Media Extensions have been somewhat controversial in the web standards community because they enable DRM support in web browsers.

Getting your videos ready for HTML5-friendly formats is a whole other topic, one covered by Mark Pilgrim's video encoding section of Dive Into HTML5, as recommended by Webmonkey.