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 ...

Developers have been creating financially successful games with web technologies for many years: Travian was successful using static web pages and Farmville ploughed an entirely new furrow using Flash ...

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 ...

Support for the next generation of HTML is already appearing in today’s browsers and Web pages. Are you ready to take advantage? Among Web developers, anticipation is mounting for HTML5, the overhaul ...

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 ...

Long and painful is the road of overcoming buzzwords and catchphrases in the interactive space. I’ve had to isolate the specific qualities that result in a “Web 2.0” solution. I’ve had to “make social ...

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 ...