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HTML 5 drops open-source video codec
News HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video codec, the Google employee who maintains the burgeoning web-coding standard has announced. This means HTML 5 will not specify a single codec for web development.
[July 3, 2009, 17:08]
Mobile offers dual WAP, HTML browsing
News The world's first mobile phone to support both WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HTML browsing debuted at this week's GSM World Congress in Cannes. Although the data transfer speeds on today's GSM network make HTML browsing unworkable, the...
[February 2, 2000, 13:25]
Flash, HTML, Ajax vie for victory in web-app war
News Other big HTML changes include Canvas, to let browsers create customised graphical elements, such as charts, on the fly, based on programming instructions rather than just downloading pre-fabricated elements from a website; Web Workers, to let...
[August 12, 2008, 12:43]
W3C releases draft of HTML 5
News The World Wide Web Consortium has published a public draft of the first major upgrade to HTML in over a decade. Released on Tuesday, the first working draft for HTML 5 is a result of work carried out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML...
[January 25, 2008, 13:59]
Microsoft raises questions over HTML 5 standard
News Microsoft has raised questions and concerns about proposals for the new version of HyperText Markup Language (HTML). In a mailing list posting on Friday, the software giant set out a number of points relating to the HTML 5 draft for the web-page...
[August 10, 2009, 10:41]
FrontPage gets XML, loses 'messy' HTML
News We've really focused on generating clean, industry-standard HTML code. Microsoft has announced details of FrontPage 2003, the next version of the Web authoring package, which is slated to come out this autumn around the same time as the other...
[June 10, 2003, 13:43]
Microsoft strengthens HTML patent with Eolas
News It deals with the way that HTML tags can be used to point to dynamic or interactive multimedia components on servers. Microsoft's patent also uses as a reference the work of W3C member Dave Raggett on HTML+, which spawned HTML 3.0; Microsoft and...
[October 11, 2004, 16:55]
Outside In relieves HTML headaches
News If HTML is turning you inside out with frustration, you could do worse than to check out Outside In Server (2.0) from Inso, its latest web server-based, real-time HTML conversion software. Outside In Server supports on-the-fly conversions to HTML...
[August 26, 1999, 12:12]
Microsoft patents 'HTML applications'
News Microsoft was awarded on Tuesday a patent by the US Patents and Trademarks Office on writing Windows applications in HTML, so making it possible to bypass the built-in security that browsers offer. According the application, the patent (no.covers...
[December 10, 2003, 11:30]
Google shows Native Client built into HTML 5
News However, Google wants to make the technology more broadly accessible in browsers through new technology coming to HTML, the standard used to build web pages and, at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco on Thursday, it demonstrated...
[May 29, 2009, 16:29]
Google Chrome adds HTML video support
News Google has begun supporting a new HTML feature to show video in its Chrome browser as an alternative to Adobe's much more widely used Flash, but the technology overall remains rough around the edges. HTML video is one of a handful of technologies...
[May 29, 2009, 9:35]
Patent suit may prompt changes to HTML
News As anxiety builds throughout the Web over the patent threatening Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, the Web's leading standards group is considering modifying the medium's lingua franca itself, HTML, to address the same threat.
[September 22, 2003, 9:50]
Apple links OCR to HTML
News The OneScanner 2.0 control software allows scanned text to be converted to HTML and embedded into a Web authoring application via drag and drop. The OneScanner (£555 + VAT) supports 30-bit colour depth and recognises over one billion colours.
[September 12, 1996, 17:08]
W3C investigates threat to HTML
News As previously reported, the W3C conceived the patent advisory group to study the threat posed by the Eolas plug-in patent to the Web's core markup language, HTML and related W3C recommendations. With a patent threat looming over the Web's de facto...
[September 25, 2003, 13:00]
Windows HTML flaw persists
News The Bucharest-based security service provider said that a critical patch issued by Microsoft in its MS05-001 bulletin earlier this month fails to resolve all of the security issues surrounding the HTML Help ActiveX control in Windows.
[January 25, 2005, 8:10]
Microsoft stands by Outlook HTML decision
News Dave Greiner, a member of the Email Standards Project, was distressed in 2007 when Microsoft decided to use Microsoft Word's relatively rudimentary technology to display HTML-encoded email in Outlook.
[June 25, 2009, 10:40]
Macromedia opens Dynamic HTML developer area
News Macromedia said that now Shockwave Director and Shockwave Flash animations can now be placed anywhere on an HTML page, and in front of or behind HTML objects. The DHTML Zone offers development tips, sample code, discussions, links and reference...
[August 4, 1997, 13:22]
Old hack haunts WebTV
News An HTML hack -- which had previously allowed attackers to command users' machines to send forged email -- caused renewed headaches for Internet-over-TV provider WebTV Networks this past weekend. According to a WebTV's Allen, the embedded URL hidden...
[March 21, 2000, 9:19]
IE bug crashes browsers
News A simple flaw in Internet Explorer 6.0 causes the browser to crash when it views pages containing malicious HTML code, a security researcher has found. The bug is exploited through five lines of HTML code.
[April 17, 2003, 8:59]
FluidHTML seeks to bridge web-programming divide
News Today's web programmers face an important choice when it comes to fancier aspects of their sites: HTML or Flash? The start-up, FHTML, on Monday announced software that is intended to give HTML-style programmers the ability to use Flash features.
[September 15, 2009, 9:22]
