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 ...

World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) HTML 5 is the wave of the future even though it is still a work in progress. It is designed to replace the HTML 4.01 standard although HTML 5 is backwards compatible.

HTML has been the one mighty leader when it comes to markups for the Web. There’s no real rival and as such, it's actually more of a standard than a product. This dominance has had a few negative ...

After nearly eight years of work, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finalized the HTML5 standard, bringing the basic Web technology firmly into the era of mobile devices and cloud-driven rich ...

This story originally appeared on CNET and is republished with permission. The mobile technology landscape is incredibly confusing. There are numerous choices, ranging from new HTML5 technologies, ...

The ongoing debate over how to best get applications onto mobile devices — either through native deployments or writing a mobile Web application — is going to remain a front-burner question for ...

Before we begin, we ought to define the terms, HTML5 app and Native app, to prevent ambiguities, and needless arguments in the comments. If you intend to develop a graphic intensive game, you almost ...

About a year ago, I wrote a post about Apple's "blind spot" for Flash. I took more heat for that post than anything else I've written other than political posts. It opened my eyes to the fact that ...

Believe it or not, Flash still has an ardent fan club. The once-ubiquitous media player for browsers has taken its lumps, thanks in large part to security issues. However, diehards remain in Flash’s ...