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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has been beating the HTML5 drum increasingly loudly as its HTML5-compliant Internet Explorer (IE) 9 browser approaches the finish line. Company execs have said HTML5 is central to the ...

Let’s take a quick look at the attention grabbing headline that was issued for maximum publicity rather than maximum fact: Mark Zuckerberg called Facebook’s HTML5 app “one of the biggest mistakes if ...

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 ...

Firefox and Safari partially support it, Google's Wave and Chrome projects are banking on it, and most web developers are ecstatic about what it means. It's HTML5, and if you're not exactly sure what ...

With his new collection, “Form Follows Function,” Jongmin Kim provides an addictively interactive demostration of what beauty and interactivity HTML5 is capable of helping to create. It’s impossible ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how social media, mobile, and the cloud impacts our web usage. This article is more than 10 years old. HTML5 is a hot ...

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 ...

Although the HTML5 spec won’t be finalized until July 2014, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), has scheduled its “last call” for feature-completeness for this May. So what’s missing? According to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing about the creators and data behind digital entertainment. This article is more than 10 years old. Next Monday marks the ...

Last week, Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos said the e-tailer had reached "a tipping point" with its Kindle e-book platform: with a price now below $200 for the Kindle reader, sales have tripled, Bezos said, ...