Those curious about the final release date for the hotly debated HTML5 need wonder no more: The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) plans to finalize the standard by July 2014, the organization announced ...

Concluding HTML version numbers are a relic of a bygone age, Ian Hickson adopts a "living document" approach. Not so the W3C standards group. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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 ...

Unable to resist a good marketing opportunity, the Web standards group is promoting itself and its new Web technology. What HTML5 actually means, though, remains vague. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released an HTML5 logo in different styles and formats, but the with the same general presentation theme. Ian Jacob’s interview of Michael Nieling and the HTML5 ...

The W3C and WHATWG are splitting editing duties on their respective HTML specifications. While some believe that the change will lead to two forks of HTML, WHATWG editor Ian Hickson maintains that any ...

HTML 5 is a new recommendation following "HTML 4.0" in 1997 and "HTML 4.01" in 1999, and it has taken in more of the current state of the web showing evolution, development, and spread rapidly.

In discussing HTML5, there is a temptation to focus on the features that are new and different. But to look at them too closely before taking a step back would miss its larger impact.

The Last Call Working Draft is a public invitation to comment on the technical soundness of HTML5. Those who care about such things have about 10 more weeks to report bugs and then the W3C has until ...

HTML validation is more than catching missing tags—it’s about ensuring your site is standards-compliant, accessible, and optimized for performance. From W3C’s trusted Markup Validation Service to ...

Geolocation, Web Workers, History manipulation, undo, iFrame sandboxes, and other HTML5 specs laying the groundwork for a safer and smarter Web One of the sly games that smart managers play is ...