It looks as though Microsoft actually has a shot at competing with iOS and Android in BYOD. Mobile app developers have a growing interest in HTML5, especially for Windows 8, which is great news for ...

Microsoft released on Wednesday a Firefox browser add-on extending HTML5-based video on the company’s Windows 7 OS. The plug-in enables Firefox users to play H.264-encoded video on HTML5 by using ...

HTML5 developers queried recently by tools vendor Sencha remain dedicated to building apps via Web technologies, even as doubts have been cast on how effective HTML5 is vis à vis native development.

If you are as old as me, you remember the transition from MS-DOS to Windows in the early 1990s. Dominant applications like Lotus 123 and WordPerfect were quickly knocked from their perches as the ...

With the release of Windows 8.1 Preview, Netflix now supports streaming over HTML5 instead of Microsoft's proprietary Silverlight plug-in. The caveat is that only Internet Explorer 11, which is ...

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Microsoft has released an HTML5 video-player extension for the Chrome browser to counteract Google’s decision to drop support for the most widely used HTML5 video format. Conversely, Microsoft has ...

When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user interface looks clean, attractive, and thoughtful, and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A few weeks ago, Grooveshark.com announced an HTML5 version of their music-streaming site which ...

On March 16, Microsoft is making a first developer preview of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 available for download from www.IETestDrive.com. The IE 9 Platform Preview doesn't include the IE 9 user ...