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 ...

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 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 ...

HTML5 is here, and the Web will never be the same. You've no doubt heard that before, or something like it. I'd guess that when you did, you got excited, rolled your eyes, or mouthed the word "why?" ...

HTML5 equips organizations to leverage open standards and stream videos without depending on a third-party player or plug-in. An MPEG/H.264, Ogg/Theora, or WebM/VP8 video can each be played in the ...

HTML5 is still evolving, but in the current mobile landscape, proponents are finding ways around its limitations. 2012 wasn’t a great year for HTML5. If it were a football team, the markup language ...