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 ...

The core language of Web pages is a step closer to standardization and a more advanced companion to tackle things like video captions, autocompleted form entries, and spell checking. Stephen Shankland ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has said that because the HTML5 standard is not yet finalized, developers should wait before rushing to create HTML5 content. Specifically, there are still ...

HTML5 is about to take the training wheels off the Web and unleash a new generation of Internet applications. That has Web developers, cloud computing startups, and the big three tech companies -- ...

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 ...

HTML5, which updates the HTML specification to accommodate modern Web applications, has gained a lot of adherents in vendors like Microsoft, Google, and Apple. But the specification is plain not ready ...

While the whole world might be shouting praises of HTML5 off the rooftops, it is the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) itself which has taken a more skeptical approach and recommended against using ...

A preview version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser engine passed more elements of a web standards test than a random selection of other browsers in the Worldwide Web Consortium's "vastly ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The W3C and WHATWG are splitting editing duties on their respective HTML specifications. While some believe that ...