With the release of Windows 8.1 Preview, Netflix now supports streaming over HTML5 instead of Microsoft's proprietary Silverlight plug-in. The caveat is that only Internet Explorer 11, which is ...

The core language of Web pages is a step closer to standardization and a more advanced companion to tackle things like video captions, autocompleted form entries, and spell checking. Stephen Shankland ...

There will be one billion HTML5-capable phones sold in 2013, according to new research from Strategy Analytics. The number represents a (huge, huge) increase from the 336 million units sold in 2011.

Netflix is taking a big step toward moving away from Microsoft Silverlight technology to stream videos to your web browser. The company has announced that you can now stream videos in HTML5… if you’re ...

This article is excerpted from HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook and reprinted with permission of publisher Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional. The persistence of information in the visitor’s browser has ...

Tumult on Monday released Hype 1.6, a significant update to its tool for authoring and animating HTML5 creations that don’t require Flash. The new iteration of Hype ...

One of the big fights in technology right now is about how you will watch videos, animations, ads, games, and other stuff on the web in the future. The incumbent technology for a lot of these things ...

We’ve been writing about HTML5 for quite a while, but, until today, the actual HTML5 specs and standards were still moving targets. Now, however, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced that ...

With little fanfare, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced work has begun on the next iteration of the Web’s most crucial standard, HTML5.1. The interesting part: The spec is being shaped ...

The comparative merits of Flash 10.1 and HTML5 are a hot topic right now, given the imminent arrival of the Flash-free iPad, and Adobe are doing their best to point out that their system isn't quite ...