Tag Archives: HTML5 News

HTML5 Video Crash Course from Computerworld

This articles starts out a little slow but by page 2 you start to get some very good information and links to resources. View the article here

Yoda says “Much HTML5 I sense in the Firefox 4.0 beta”

Websockets API I see… New tags have you… Download Firefox 4.0 Beta Here

721% Increase in HTML5 Jobs

Does that mean that there are 721 jobs! lol According to Freelancer.com: “The Apple Effect: 26% of all web video is available using HTML5 (The Register) and this number is only going to increase as Steve Jobs famously gave Flash the cold shoulder with the release of the iPad and new iPhone. This endorsement gave [...]

Kindle get’s itself a little HTML5

Since the Kindle Reader has broken away from just the Kindle device, which was an incredibly smart move by Bezos and company, it’s not a surprise that their new “look inside the book” type feature will use HTML5 so it’s highly accessible (or at all) on the iPad. I had a client just the other [...]

Why we need to get parental supervision in HTML5

Stephen Shankland, from CNET news reported today that the people behind the actual specification of HTML5 are experiencing some “growing pains”.  He goes on to say that they are using juvenile smack phrases and generally disagreeing with each other about some minor semantics of the specification. I hate to say it but I used to [...]

9 ways that HTML5 will change the Web…

Without using bullets or numbers to count each way apparently… Peter Wayner’s InfoWorld article does little to shed any new light on HTML5 unless it’s the first article you’ve ever read on it. Hey that’s just my opinion and I’m not getting paid to blog about HTML5. I’m sure it would be different if I [...]

Adobe Air 2 – Enhanced support for HTML5, CSS3

Adobe Air 2 now available. From the Adobe blog: “We have also made improvements to HTML support in AIR 2, which you can take advantage of whether you are building an application using only HTML/CSS and JavaScript, or incorporating the HTMLLoader view as part of a Flash/ActionScript‐based application. We have added support for some CSS3 [...]

JavaScript Giant, Sencha Hinges HTML5 Back to Reality

I think it’s fair to say that, after all the recent hype from Apple and Google about HTML5, somebody needs to make a move to keep this open-source/cross-browser HTML5 specification honest. JavaScript powerhouse Sencha, formerly Ext JS, is unveiling “a programming framework for building rich, web and touch-based applications and that draws on the HTML5 [...]

Jake Brownson talks to HTML5Tools.Net About “Hand of Greed”

A big thanks to Jake Brownson from Brainium Studios, creator of the recently released “Hand of Greed” iPhone Game App written with HTML5 for responding to our recent e-interview inquiry. I hope to get a lot more of these! HTML5Tools: Jake can you give us a little insight on your experience developing this App with [...]

Opera 10.6 Beta Faster and More HTML5 Support

According to Seth Rosenblatz on The Download Blog the new Opera beta has “speed improvements and better HTML5 compliance.”  and  “a bucketload of HTML5-related improvements, along with the claim that the company has made the browser 50 percent faster than the previous version.”