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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]
HTML 5 may not be finalised before 2022
Blog The next version of the HTML web programming standard is unlikely to be finalised until 2022, according to a source within the web standards community. Officially speaking, HTML 5 is on track to "reach the W3C Candidate Recommendation stage during...
[June 15, 2009, 16:52]
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]
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]
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]
HTML 5 drops open-source video codec
Talkback Software patents suffocate innovation, and only serves to create chaos and confusion.
[July 7, 2009, 13:20]
HTML 5 may not be finalised before 2022
Blog Comment What's really sad is that long before it becomes a standard and everybody has finally finished with flogging their particular dead horse, it will be obsolete. A standards committee with more than 2 members will never get anything done that...
[June 18, 2009, 3:59]
HTML 5 cometh
Blog HTML5 is the successor to HTML, and is managed by the WHATWG. I was perusing Eric Meyer's Free S5 presentation tool the other day, and came across HTML5 And You. This is a blog entry about the HTML5 specifications.
[October 2, 2009, 14:41]
Google speeds up Chrome
News Google has released a new beta version of its Chrome browser, adding speed improvements, HTML 5 functionality and other tweaks. In addition, the company said it has started building HTML 5 functionality into the latest release.
[August 6, 2009, 16:47]
Google: The browser is the computer
News Many of applications demonstrated before the crowd of around 4,000 developers will require the widespread adoption of HTML 5 technologies, which are still under development by a consortium of companies and organisations.
[May 28, 2009, 9:31]
Opera: Web standards could eclipse Flash
News The next revision of the HTML web language will make Adobe's Flash technology largely redundant, according to the chief executive of browser company Opera. The open web standards included in HyperText Markup Language version 5 (HTML 5) provide a...
[May 22, 2009, 16:33]
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]
Google releases stable version of Chrome 3.0
News Google has redesigned the New Tab page with click-and-drag functionality, added icons to the Omnibox to distinguish between searches, sites and bookmarks when entering text in the address bar and, perhaps most significantly, added support for the...
[September 16, 2009, 9:08]
Google demos Gmail mobile web app
News Google's HTML 5-based web version of Gmail shown on an Android phone The software relied on features in HTML 5, the still-under-development version of the technology that underpins website design. When we make it broadly available, people are going...
[April 6, 2009, 9:28]
XHTML 2 is finally laid to rest
News It was an attempt start afresh without HTML's shortcomings. I will not say it's been the smoothest way of doing things, but it's not an unnatural way for things to proceed," said Mike Smith, leader of HTML work at the W3C.
[July 9, 2009, 13:23]
High Impact eMail 5 Platinum
Downloads High Impact eMail is an e-mail marketing program for designing professional HTML promotions, newsletters, advertisements, stationery and greetings quickly and easily. Windows Mail, Gmail and any other e-mail service provider that supports HTML.
[May 6, 2009, 16:16]
Will new browsers really upgrade the web?
News Many of new browser features stem from HTML 5, the not-yet-finalised next iteration of the HyperText Markup Language standard that defines how web pages are described. Bumps on the HTML 5 video road In practice, HTML 5 video is rough around the edges.
[June 18, 2009, 12:59]
Google Wave: a First Look review
Reviews Google Wave is built around HTML 5, so you'll need to use what Google calls a 'modern browser' — Chrome, Safari or Firefox (or IE with Google's new Chrome Frame plugin). Google is touting Wave as one of the first HTML 5 applications and it needs...
[September 23, 2009, 11:03]
Newbuntu, old problem
Blog A clean install of Ubuntu 9.04 on my old PC-under-the-desk led to a problem with the Firefox HTML validation tool HTML Validator by Marc Gueury. Sure, it's some sort of library of code that is referenced by the HTML Validator extension, something...
[May 1, 2009, 13:46]
Mozilla warns of Flash and Silverlight 'agenda'
News While he conceded that Flash was currently necessary for consistently displaying content such as video, he suggested that the upcoming revision of the HTML specification would make it unnecessary to use proprietary technology.
[April 30, 2008, 11:51]
