No emerging technology on the web has been more touted than HTML5. But what does it mean for users and developers. This article takes you through the real-life impact this monster new standard is ...

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, experiments ...

Firefox and Safari partially support it, Google's Wave and Chrome projects are banking on it, and most web developers are ecstatic about what it means. It's HTML5, and if you're not exactly sure what ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Support for the next generation of HTML is already appearing in today’s browsers and Web pages. Are you ready to take advantage? Among Web developers, anticipation is mounting for HTML5, the overhaul ...

In the past six years, the rise of the ebook has ushered in three successive revolutions that have roiled and reshaped the traditional publishing industry. Revolution #1 began in November in 2007, ...

Although the HTML5 spec won’t be finalized until July 2014, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), has scheduled its “last call” for feature-completeness for this May. So what’s missing? According to ...

Back when Apple was entering the mobile space, they (and others) touted HTML5 as the savior for us all. Now that Apple owns a significant portion of the paying mobile space, they seem somewhat less ...

Microsoft's announcement that HTML5 and JavaScript would be first-class tools for creating 'Windows 8' applications created consternation among some .NET developers. Would their investments in XAML ...