We're quickly reaching the point when many of our favorite online applications can now also be used offline. Gmail, Google Reader, Zoho Writer and other popular apps all offer offline access thanks to ...

When developers initially created Adobe Flash Player in 1997, it revolutionized the way developers could display their content on the Web. From vector-based animations to audio and video streaming, it ...

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 ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Working Group has published a draft of the HTML 5 specification, a major revision to the markup language that powers the Web. The specification is being ...

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WebStorm, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio Code, NetBeans, Komodo, and Eclipse pull out the stops for JavaScript, Node.js, and friends. JavaScript is used for many different kinds of applications ...

Among Web developers, anticipation is mounting for HTML 5, the overhaul of the Web markup language currently under way at the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C). For many, the revamping is long overdue.

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.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg caused an industry-wide stir last month when he said during a press conference that the biggest mistake his company had made so far was "betting too much on HTML 5 rather ...