Club Penguin, Neopets, Habbo Hotel, and Addicting Games were once cornerstones of our childhoods, accessible through Flash ...

HTML5 apps can also be afflicted by slowness and often work erratically when a data connection isn’t available or is intermittent. Other shortcomings of HTML5 in comparison to native ...

While HTML5 has anchored the open web platform, the platform itself has increasingly become bigger than just HTML, Jaffe said. So the W3C is working on security, performance, and streaming.

In reality, however, HTML5 was still in flux -- until today. The W3C today published its Recommendation of HTML5 -- the final version of the standard after years of adding features and making ...

The HTML5 vs native app development debate is still as valid in 2015 as it was 5 years ago. We dissect the pros and cons of both, and discuss hybrid apps.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the industry body that oversees development of many Web-related technologies, is again considering the development of a specification enabling DRM-protected ...

Exemplary HTML5 app No. 1: Zoho. There are at least 33 apps in the Zoho collection. Some are basic productivity apps, like a word processor, and others, like the Zoho CRM app, ...

HTML5 is now YouTube's default on Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8, and Firefox betas. Leider called out HTML5’s adoption of Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) as key in its switch.

If you’ve ever tried embedding videos on your website, you’ve likely come across two popular methods: using an HTML5 video player or embedding an iframe video. While both achieve the same goal ...

HTML5 is an umbrella term that is often used to include HTML5 itself, plus scores of enhancements to programming and media control capabilities, but the technical changes are just the beginning of ...

Websites have shifted from Flash to HTML5 for video, because many browsers now allow native disabling of Flash. Here's what you now need to know to stop videos from playing as soon as the page loads.

Slowly but surely, HTML5 browsers have come to enable rich video experiences. In this article, you’ll learn how to go beyond basic video playback by adding playlists, chapter markers, poster frames, ...