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

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 ...

After igniting a hailstorm of controversy over its intent to drop HTML5's H.264 support from its Chrome browser, Google has reaffirmed its intent to push its own open WebM video codec via Flash ...

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

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.

While HTML5 has gotten a lot of attention, it's not yet ubiquitous on the desktop. That's because not all browsers support HTML5 video. "When you look at a market for HTML5 playback, you've got to ...

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 ...

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 streaming music service has just launched a new Pandora Web app, which is accessible through the two game consoles and other set-top boxes with browsers that support HTML5.

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 ...

Web developers wanting to use the new features in HTML5 or CSS3 are still struggling with incomplete and inconsistent browser support. While HTML5 isn’t perfect (or complete), that doesn’t ...