Posted April 17, 2013, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
Netflix has been working toward transitioning away from Silverlight to HTML5, it recently indicated on its technology blog. With Silverlight's biggest customer fleeing the web-based video plug-in scene, the imminent demise of browser plug-ins like Adobe Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight…
Microsoft's decision to enable Do Not Track in IE10 by default is still managing to elicit industry criticism. Yahoo is the latest company to ignore IE10's on-by-default DNT policy, joining Apache in not recognizing the browser's DNT setting. Yahoo reasons that…
Posted October 9, 2012, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The WebWith Video
A new project backed by some heavy industry hitters is aiming to be a one-stop shop for all things related to web standards. The site, called Web Platform Docs, launched yesterday in alpha form consisting of a blog, a chat…
Posted September 25, 2012, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the collective that manages specifications used on the Internet, has issued a report on the progress of HTML 5. The markup language that is know by many as the Java killer wasn’t originally scheduled…
Yesterday, Microsoft posted an interesting look at the current state of Internet Explorer 10 on its MSDN blog. In the article, readers will discover that Microsoft is touting a faster and more fluid experience, natural touch and gesture control, metro-influenced…
Posted March 26, 2012, 3:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
In a new report published by the FTC (pdf), the commission attempts to lay a new framework to protect the privacy of citizens and refreshes its own views on how to accomplish those goals. Some of the ideas outlined include Do…
Posted January 18, 2011, 2:33 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has unveiled a new logo for HTML5. The logo links back to W3C, the place for authoritative information on HTML5, including specs and test cases.
Posted November 2, 2010, 9:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Software
The Worldwide Web Consortium has released the first test results for browsers’ HTML5 conformance and it looks like Microsoft has been doing a great job supporting the latest set of web standards. Taking into account seven aspects of HTML5 specifications…
Posted October 6, 2010, 9:29 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Software
HTML5 has gained a lot of supporters in the last few years, including tech giants Microsoft, Google, and Apple. On the other hand, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees HTML5, warns the specification isn't yet ready for website…
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