When developers initially created Adobe Flash Player in 1997, it revolutionized the way developers could display their content on the Web. From vector-based animations to audio and video streaming, it ...

Despite making the vast majority of its money from hardware sales, Apple is investing heavily in shaping the future of software. One example of this pertains to HTML 5 and related web standards. While ...

The increasingly competitive browser market has at last created an environment in which emerging Web standards can flourish. One of the harbingers of the open Web renaissance is HTML 5, the next major ...

Erika Trautman is the CEO of Rapt Media. Cassette tapes, 8-tracks, and … Flash. All three of these mediums need a player to work, and all three mediums are either dead or dying. Just as CDs replaced ...

Now, however, the standard is widely adopted and has plenty going for it, like the support for live broadcasts and a more immersive fullscreen view. Seeing as HTML5 is not just in browsers but smart ...

After nearly eight years of work, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finalized the HTML5 standard, bringing the basic Web technology firmly into the era of mobile devices and cloud-driven rich ...

Software developers are increasingly using Web technologies to build desktop applications. This is because modern HTML rendering engines and emerging standards provide a profoundly powerful foundation ...

We’ve seen a whole bunch of games created in or ported to new browser technologies lately. But what about the original DOOM, one of the most ported games of all time? DOOM has finally been ported to ...

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HTML5 has been billed as the natural, standards-based successor to proprietary plug-ins such as Adobe’s Flash Player for providing rich multimedia services on the Web. But when it comes to security, ...

Facebook today announced the culmination of more than six months of work, a native version of the Facebook app for iOS that’s twice as fast. “Up until now we’ve looked at scale,” iOS Product Manager ...