The World Wide Web Consortium finishes an update to this seminal Internet technology, but with two organizations in charge of the same Web standard, charting the Web's future is a mess.

In particular, OpenTelly’s THEOplayer enables the playback of encrypted HLS streams in an HTML5 browser without Flash or Silverlight plug-ins. As you’ll see, this is important, because while the ...

HTML5's Open Source Solution? Yesterday we discussed the impact on the HTML5 video tag debate that Microsoft's preview release of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is bound to generate. At its Mix 10 ...

Although there are some HTML-savvy tools available today, there’s nothing on the order of a Microsoft Visual Studio or Adobe Dreamweaver, Hammond said. HTML5’s newest target date could slip again ...

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-up to 1997's HTML 4 -- has ...

Yet with the advent of HTML5, even Flash on the desktop seems like one plug-in too many. Adobe’s best bet now is to quietly deprecate Flash and put all its chips on open Web standards.

The HTML5 Web specification that's used in browsers today is on track for 'Recommendation' status.