Concluding HTML version numbers are a relic of a bygone age, Ian Hickson adopts a "living document" approach. Not so the W3C standards group. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

One of the latest tech buzzwords given wings by the success of the iPhone and iPad is HTML5. Apple has pitched this up-and-coming iteration of the Web’s main building block as everything from an ...

Emotional disagreements between two groups are disrupting the creation of the high-profile standard at the heart of the next-generation Web. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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 Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) formally accepted a big change recently that could affect future Web standards—a decision that will either change nothing or destroy the Web forever. It all depends ...

HTML5 began making waves in software development many years before its official adoption in October 2014, reducing reliance on proprietary rich internet technologies such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft ...

HTML5 heralds some nifty new features and the potential for sparking a web programming paradigm shift, and as everyone who has read the tech press knows, there is nothing like HTML5 for fixing the ...

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 ...