Posts Tagged ‘worldwide web consortium

Internet Explorer 9 Beta on the Windows 7 desktop The standards body that oversees HTML5 has released the results of its first tests designed to measure the level of HTML5 support in web browsers. The results, surprisingly, put Internet Explorer 9 ahead of Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. Microsoft’s IE9 team deserves some major credit [...]

If you’re like most of us, you probably have contact and address book data spread all over the web — friends on Facebook, contacts in Gmail, followers on Twitter, and names in your local address book application. Wouldn’t it be nice if all that data were available in one place where you could see it [...]

Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web’s governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website’s code against multiple web standards at the same time. You can find the new Unicorn “all-in-one validator” on the Worldwide Web [...]

Microsoft’s next browser will support native playback of videos using HTML5, but it will only support H.264, and not its more open alternatives. In a post on the official IEBlog Thursday, Microsoft’s general manager of Internet Explorer Dean Hachamovitch outlined his company’s position in the ongoing Flash vs. HTML5 video debate. He says that when [...]

The great promise of HTML5 is that it will turn the web into a full-fledged computing platform awash with video, animation and real-time interactions, yet free of the hacks and plug-ins common today. While the language itself is almost fully baked, HTML5 won’t fully arrive for at least another two years, according to one of [...]


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