HTML5 has been billed as a means for developers to create modern Web applications, complete with support for multimedia functionality like video and Canvas 2D. Its emergence has led to questions about ...

HTML5 is growing in importance and will continue to be a dominant platform for many use cases for the foreseeable future. Enterprise architects need to consider weaving HTML5 capabilities into their ...

The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened — YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for ...

If you’ve ever tried to wrestled your way through the complexities of the HTML5 specification, we’ve got good news — there’s now a “web developer edition.” The main HTML5 spec can be overwhelming for ...

Facebook has moved to HTML5 by default in all browsers for web videos that appears on its News Feed, Pages and the embedded Facebook video player. Setting Adobe's Flash aside for video marks a ...

Google proposed making HTML5 the default over Flash in its Chrome browser back in May. With the latest release, Chrome 55, the company has nearly completed the transition. Chrome now defaults to HTML5 ...

Microsoft's announcement that HTML5 and JavaScript would be first-class tools for creating 'Windows 8' applications created consternation among some .NET developers. Would their investments in XAML ...

HTML5 lets you play music through compliant browsers—no "cloud" required. Recently, "cloud"-based music services, from big names like Amazon, Google and Apple, have been getting attention in the press ...

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HTML5 doesn't eliminate the need for JavaScript, but it does reduce it, simplifying life both for Web developers and tool developers by replacing what used to require code with declarative settings.