It’s significant when an important player in a sector does something for the first time, because the decision makers must think there is a good reason for pushing the envelope. Consequently, the basic ...

Google this week added support for HTML5 playback of videos in its own Chrome browser as well as Safari from Apple. The new feature allows users to watch video without the longstanding Internet ...

For companies that compete with Microsoft, HTML5 is almost the Holy Grail, offering the ability to run applications regardless of the underlying operating system. While the browser isn’t more ...

HTML5 is the next generation markup language that contains a "video tag" that enables browsers to play videos without plug-ins like Flash, Silverlight or QuickTime. HTML5 has recently surfaced as a ...

To find out if your browser supports the new input data types and controls, try my experimental HTML5 table at wayner.org. HTML5 forms: Input element type In the old days, there were only a few types ...

It's an HTML5 world, right? Not so fast. Anyone encoding video for the web has likely wondered if they should devote all their energy to creating HTML5 files and leave Flash behind. As ...

Mozilla and Opera have mocked rival Microsoft’s use of the term “native HTML5” to describe Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and the in-development IE10 as an oxymoron, an attempt to hijack an open standard ...

One of the pieces of functionality commonly discussed when distinguishing HTML5 from previous versions of HTML is the standardization of geolocation via the Geolocation API. Although some browsers ...