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 ...

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.

The latest version of Microsoft Edge for Windows 10 Redstone 2 shows new HTML5 support that helps the browser score an impressive 500 out of 555 points on HTML5test. When you purchase through links on ...

Developers using the AppMobi SDK will now be able to produce Java and HTML5 apps for Windows 8 and its mobile equivalent, Windows Phone 8, from the same code. AppMobi’s move comes a day after the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Windows Phone 8.1 has been released, at least in its Developer Preview form, for several months ...

Mozilla today announced that Firefox for Windows now works with Netflix’s HTML5 video player. At the same time, Netflix promised the functionality would come to Firefox for Mac users “next year.” In ...

Windows 8 wasn't the only widely used piece of software to be released in an early form this week. Internet Explorer 10 saw its third platform preview, Microsoft noted on its Building IE blog. In ...

The tablet-optimized Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 in Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will be a "plug-in free experience," as the company follows Apple's lead in abandoning Adobe Flash in favor ...

Remember Microsoft’s Silverlight Flash competitor? Few people probably do (and Microsoft has long given up on it), but for the longest time, you needed Silverlight to watch Netflix in your Firefox ...