The latest beta version of Mozilla's extremely popular browser Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 was recently pushed to testers and eager users worldwide. It's mostly a bug fixing release, unsurprising at this stage in the development process when the focus is on rounding out the rough edges. Still, there are a couple of... |
27 November 2009
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Google would love a world where everyone is online all the time. In fact, it's basing all of its strategies on this. We're not quite there yet, so, in the meantime, it's working on making its services available when offline. Gmail makes it possible to work offline with a Google Gears version of the ser... |
25 November 2009
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Along with the unveiling of the new Flash Player 10.1, which will be coming out early next year, Google has announced it will be joining Adobe's Open Screen Project, which aims to bring a unified web experience to all of the different types of Internet-enabled devices. Flash Player 10.1 will be the first release... |
5 October 2009
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The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Web Applications Working Group has published updates to the Working Draft in XMLHttpRequest and XMLHttpRequest Level 2. These specifications govern the way interactive web applications are handled by developers and offer the basic API documentation for programmers wanting to spice ... |
26 August 2009
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After years of veiled and even outspoken criticism from browser makers and many web developers, Microsoft has decided to start supporting the proposed HTML 5 standard in its Internet Explorer web browser. While known for its spotty support of even ratified standards, Internet Explorer has been moving in the right dir... |
8 August 2009
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The proposed HTML 5 standard is far from being a done deal but new features are already being added to the list. One of the most exciting ones is 3D hardware acceleration allowing web pages to have native 3D graphics capabilities independent of any proprietary implementation. Industry consortium Khronos Group showcas... |
5 August 2009
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Google has just announced that it will acquire video technology company On2 and has entered the final stages of the deal, which involves an all-stock transaction, each On2 share being the equivalent of $0.60 worth of Google class A common stock, thus valuating the company at about $106.5 million. The transaction is e... |
5 August 2009
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Wikipedia has been working on video support for years now, but the rumors about an impending launch are intensifying. And now, Erik Moller, deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, is saying that the new feature is coming very soon in the coming months, and that there are already some pages with video content ena... |
18 July 2009
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In an effort to speed up HTML 5 development, W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) announced at the start of July that it would discontinue all XHTML 2 research. This means that the XHTML 2 Working Group will stop all activity at the end of 2009, and all resulting resources will be redirected to the HTML 5 Working Group. ... |
13 July 2009
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Among squabbles and disagreements, specific codec requirements for the <video> and <audio> tags may be removed from the proposed HTML 5 standard. Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) made his concerns and decisions known saying that without a gene... |
3 July 2009
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Dailymotion, one of the biggest video hosting sites in the world, has launched, with support from the Mozilla Foundation, a version of its site that uses only the HTML 5 'video' tag for video playback. This makes it the first large video sharing site to implement the feature and the move will allow users to... |
1 June 2009
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Google's I/O developer conference is underway in San Francisco and, though there are many announcements being made, the overall theme is HTML 5. The technology is still under development and Google's vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, made it the central point of his keynote presentation, focusing... |
28 May 2009
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As we all know, the vast majority of the websites exisiting today on the Internet are made using the HTML language. Even the server side applications that allow anyone to present content over the Internet will output HTML code that will be rendered by web browsers in the same way as in case of static HTML. HTML 5 w... |
12 December 2007
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