One of the pieces of functionality commonly discussed when distinguishing HTML5 from previous versions of HTML is the standardization of geolocation via the Geolocation API. Although some browsers ...

Last spring document sharing portal Scribd launched an impressive new HTML5 engine that can render the site’s millions of documents in the browser, without Flash. Now fellow Y Combinator alum Crocodoc ...

Support for the HTML full-screen API was recently enabled in Firefox nightly builds. It allows Web applications to toggle the browser into full-screen mode and stretch a single page element so that it ...

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One nifty feature of HTML5 is that web apps can store data locally on your computer and have it available even when you are offline. Google today introduced a new API for Chrome, the SyncFileSystem ...

From the beginning, Web users have had mixed feelings about the way their browser communicates. On one hand, the idea of a tightly controlled sandbox is appealing because it limits the damage a ...

New APIs in the forthcoming HTML5 make it much easier for Web applications to access software and hardware, especially on mobile devices. The W3C is taking privacy seriously as it puts the finishing ...

Although still in draft form, HTML5 is seeing widespread adoption and implementation. But there's still a fair amount of pushback and skepticism about whether HTML5 is really ready for production. At ...

Carrier AT&T is holding its sixth annual Developer Summit at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, and President and CEO Ralph De La Vega addressed some 2,500 attendees from 33 ...

iOS 4.2 is a free update for every iPhone, iPod or iPad device available now. This new release provides some major changes on HTML5 and W3C future standards support, like WebSockets and Accelerometer ...