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Windows Phone 7 Updates for 2011 Get Detailed

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is expected to deliver some software updates for its new Windows Phone 7 during the ongoing year, and some more info on them has just emerged into the wild.We already knew that the company is readying the release of such software updates for its mobile users, but little was kno...

5 January 2011
03:11 GMT

W3C Releases Important Documents Related to HTML5

Taking baby steps, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has constantly kept web developers very excited regarding the cutting edge new standards for HTML 5 and CSS 3. While drafts have been constantly pouring from the organization, they were never more than bite-size pieces of the standard. A few days ago, the W3C rel...

9 March 2010
10:53 GMT

YouTube Rolls Out HTML5 Videos

YouTube engineers sure move fast, just last week they asked people what features and changes they'd like to see on the site and, after an overwhelming response, the most requested feature is already live on the video site. YouTube has announced that it has begun to roll out support for HTML5-based videos ditchi...

21 January 2010
06:01 GMT

Multiple File Handling and Drag and Drop Become a Reality in Firefox 3.6

One of the more interesting new features to make its way into the upcoming Firefox 3.6 is support for the latest W3C File API for HTML and also for the Drag and Drop API from the proposed HTML 5 standard. With these two APIs web developers can create powerful app for file management without resorting to proprietary ...

15 December 2009
06:48 GMT

Offline Gmail Leaves Labs, Becomes a Fully-Integrated Feature

Web apps can be great for many things and Google is a big supporter of anything that lives in the cloud. But they have one major disadvantage, if there's no Internet connection there's no app. Broadband is becoming ubiquitous in some countries and wireless connections are increasingly available and reliabl...

8 December 2009
06:59 GMT

Force Google Chrome to Open Links in New Processes

When Google decided to create a new browser, it knew it had an opportunity to avoid many of the problems facing existing browsers by coming up with new ways to do things and building a solid basis from the start. One of the smartest decisions was to give each individual tab its own process thread, which would solve a...

5 December 2009
06:55 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 Introduces Local File Handling

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
07:01 GMT

Gmail Now Supports Offline Attachments

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
02:42 GMT

Google Half-Heartedly Joins Adobe's Open Screen Project

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
03:31 GMT

W3C Issues New Draft for XMLHttpRequest Specifications

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
05:38 GMT

Internet Explorer to Support the Proposed HTML 5 Standard

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
07:30 GMT

Hardware-Accelerated 3D Graphics Coming to a Browser Near You in 2010

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
10:36 GMT

Google Acquires On2, Could Release Open-Source Video Codecs

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
09:31 GMT

Wikipedia Videos Coming Soon

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
04:39 GMT

W3C Discontinues XHTML 2 Development

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
03:48 GMT

No Codec Requirements for the HTML 5 Standard

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
10:27 GMT

Dailymotion Adds Support for HTML 5

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
05:46 GMT

Google Is a Firm Supporter of HTML 5

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
08:52 GMT

Trip into the Future of HTML

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
12:14 GMT


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