HTML 5 represents the biggest leap forward in web standards in almost a decade. Unlike the specifications that came before it, HTML 5 is not merely intended to present content to a web browser. Its ...

HTML 5 aims to change all that. When it is finalized, the new standard will include tags and APIs for improved interactivity, multimedia, and localization. As experimental support for HTML 5 features ...

Thinking about WHATWG's rather Orwellian approach to the specification formerly known as HTML 5, where the 'specification' becomes a 'living document' that will likely have changed by the time a ...

The core idea behind HTML 5, the latest proposed version of the Web's foundation markup language, is to make all resources, not just text and links, widely and uniformly usable across all platforms.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Working Group has published a draft of the HTML 5 specification, a major revision to the markup language that powers the Web. The specification is being ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Much has been written about the promise of HTML 5, the next generation of the web’s lingua franca, but so far, ...

Microsoft previewed its Internet Explorer 9 Web browser to MIX10 attendees and promised to drive standards work on HTML 5. Microsoft wants the world to abandon Internet Explorer 6 and upgrade to IE7 ...