In the past six years, the rise of the ebook has ushered in three successive revolutions that have roiled and reshaped the traditional publishing industry. Revolution #1 began in November in 2007, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how social media, mobile, and the cloud impacts our web usage. This article is more than 10 years old. HTML5 is a hot ...

The HTML5 specification defines the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), also known as the lingua franca of the Web. The Web Hypertext ...

We’ve showed you where on the web you can find practical examples of HTML5 — like Google’s homepage, Scribd’s document viewer and Vimeo’s new video player. However, to really see the bleeding edge of ...

The core language of Web pages is a step closer to standardization and a more advanced companion to tackle things like video captions, autocompleted form entries, and spell checking. Stephen Shankland ...

Firefox and Safari partially support it, Google's Wave and Chrome projects are banking on it, and most web developers are ecstatic about what it means. It's HTML5, and if you're not exactly sure what ...

“BrowserQuest is a showcase of how open Web technologies like HTML5, JavaScript, CSS (cascading style sheets) and WebSockets can be used to create a multiplayer game that scales up to thousands of ...

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. Stephen ...

This story originally appeared on CNET and is republished with permission. The mobile technology landscape is incredibly confusing. There are numerous choices, ranging from new HTML5 technologies, ...

In my last column, I discussed HTML5 support for offline storage and caching through the use of LocalStorage and SessionStorage. Continuing with the HTML5 focus, I want to investigate the new ...