The World Wide Web Consortium finishes an update to this seminal Internet technology, but with two organizations in charge of the same Web standard, charting the Web's future is a mess. Stephen ...

Contemporary browsers are much more than just a window into the World Wide Web: Browser developers have turned the software into sophisticated application platforms in their own right. But browsers ...

World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) HTML 5 is the wave of the future even though it is still a work in progress. It is designed to replace the HTML 4.01 standard although HTML 5 is backwards compatible.

More than four years ago, Steve Jobs declared war on Flash and heralded HTML5 as the way to go. You could be forgiven if you thought the HTML5 standard — the follow ...

One of the latest tech buzzwords given wings by the success of the iPhone and iPad is HTML5. Apple has pitched this up-and-coming iteration of the Web’s main building block as everything from an ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the industry group that oversees the development of the specs used on the Web, today announced that the fifth major version of the hypertext markup language ...

WordPress and other CMS applications have made it a walk in the park to run a website these days, and quite a great one at that. However, when it comes to making a very customized website, or one that ...

HTML5 introduces features that give an HTML page many of the capabilities typically associated with an application. One of the key benefits of these capabilities is that with HTML5, HMI designers ...

After nearly eight years of work, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finalized the HTML5 standard, bringing the basic Web technology firmly into the era of mobile devices and cloud-driven rich ...

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 ...