More than four years ago, Steve Jobs declared war on Flash and heralded HTML5 as the way to go. You could be forgiven if you thought the HTML5 standard — the follow ...

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 ...

An industry group made up the four major browser vendors, such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, have won a tug-of-war with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body for the ...

The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) published HTML5 as a Recommendation this week, signaling the conclusion of the organization's standards work on a collection of Internet technologies. The ...

The HTML5 Web specification that's used in browsers today is on track for "Recommendation" status, perhaps by year's end. That progress report comes from Philippe Le Hégaret, head of the World Wide ...

The two standards bodies that are jointly responsible for developing the HTML specification have cut the final tie that was binding them together. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web ...

Like the Cylons, HTML5 was created by man. It rebelled. It evolved. It looks and feels like HTML. And now, it has a plan. Namely, to be done in 2014. The W3C has formalized its plan to move the HTML5 ...

Upgrade to Web spec boosts interoperability and adds 2D graphics and audio and video backing, but it will need strong support from browsers The first major upgrade to the HTML specification since 1997 ...

In an effort to better acquaint Web developers with the open technologies that can be used to build Web applications, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a Web site with tutorials and ...