HTML 5 aims to change all that. When it is finalized, the new standard will include tags and APIs for improved interactivity, multimedia, and localization. As experimental support for HTML 5 features ...

Thinking about WHATWG's rather Orwellian approach to the specification formerly known as HTML 5, where the 'specification' becomes a 'living document' that will likely have changed by the time a ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Much has been written about the promise of HTML 5, the next generation of the web’s lingua franca, but so far, ...

The core idea behind HTML 5, the latest proposed version of the Web's foundation markup language, is to make all resources, not just text and links, widely and uniformly usable across all platforms.

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 ...

Microsoft previewed its Internet Explorer 9 Web browser to MIX10 attendees and promised to drive standards work on HTML 5. Microsoft wants the world to abandon Internet Explorer 6 and upgrade to IE7 ...

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.

Over a decade ago, two brothers working out of their parents' house in Nottingham set themselves the impossible task of building their own graphical multi-user dungeon, a genre that later evolved into ...