HTML5 apps are generally cheaper to develop and maintain than native apps, since just the single app is required for multiple OS support. This single app can be developed by a single web developer.

If you’ve ever tried embedding videos on your website, you’ve likely come across two popular methods: using an HTML5 video player or embedding an iframe video. While both achieve the same goal ...

Slowly but surely, HTML5 browsers have come to enable rich video experiences. In this article, you’ll learn how to go beyond basic video playback by adding playlists, chapter markers, poster frames, ...

Flash is still actively developed, with Adobe outlining a ten-year plan for its future development, but the company is also investing heavily in HTML5 tooling and is actively working to ensure ...

Three engineers at Google have created a port of Quake II to HTML5. Frag to your heart's content from inside your browser, no Flash or other plug-ins required!

Exemplary HTML5 app No. 6: HootSuite When the group at HootSuite started to build a platform to knit together all of the social networks in our lives, it recognized that HTML5 was a natural platform.

In reality, however, HTML5 was still in flux -- until today. The W3C today published its Recommendation of HTML5 -- the final version of the standard after years of adding features and making ...

Websites have shifted from Flash to HTML5 for video, because many browsers now allow native disabling of Flash. Here's what you now need to know to stop videos from playing as soon as the page loads.

HTML5 is now YouTube's default on Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8, and Firefox betas Leider called out HTML5’s adoption of Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) as key in its switch.

Facebook has decided to go native for mobile content instead of doing HTML5 as it was the plan for a couple of years. This article contains technical details behind FB’s move, and reactions from ...

Finally, HTML5, by itself, does not provide apps with the native look and feel that users may expect. These disappointing aspects of the technology have led some well-known companies to reduce ...

If you've got a phone with an HTML5 compliant browser, you’ll probably want to check out YouTube’s new mobile site, which is rolling out over the next few hours at m.youtube.com. It’s a ...