At long last, HTML5 today reached the official Recommendation stage, meaning the World Wide Web Consortium finally endorsed it as an official standard, even as the technology already is in use in ...

HTML is a living entity. It has been evolving since its creation and will continue to evolve as long as we continue to find new and innovative ways to use the Internet. HTML5 is the latest ...

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With HTML5 what we did is we took the Web technologies of the past, that were there for putting documents on the Web, and enhanced them for real application development—with offline functionalities, ...

HTML5 versus native apps. It’s a debate as old as — well, at least three years ago. And pretty much since the beginning of that debate, there has been a general underlying current among the geek ...

The HTML5 specification defines the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), also known as the lingua franca of the Web. The Web Hypertext ...

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 WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group) today published an edition of the HTML5 specification for web developers, compiled by Melbourne, Australia developer Ben Schwarz. The ...

HTML5 began making waves in software development many years before its official adoption in October 2014, reducing reliance on proprietary rich internet technologies such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft ...

Jason Perlow: I received the following e-mail from a web and Flash developer that works for a large advertising/media production agency. With the exception of some minor editing to flow for style, the ...