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Microsoft Launches HTML5 Labs Site to Prototype New Specs

Microsoft has created a new Web site called HTML5 Labs for developers to test new and evolving specs that are still evolving and not yet stable enough for inclusion in IE9. – Microsoft has launched a new site for prototyping new HTML5 specifications that are still under development and not quite ready for primetime.
In various Dec. 21 blog posts, Microsoft unveiled its new HTML5 Labs Web site, “a place where we prototype early and not yet fully stable drafts of specific…


Microsoft Delivers HTML5 Video Plug-in for Firefox

Microsofts new plug-in for Firefox supports HTML5 video on Windows 7. – Microsoft has released a new add-in for Firefox that supports HTML5 video on Windows.
As part of the interoperability bridges work
Microsofts Internet Explorer team does, the company created a new
Firefox add-on that enables Firefox users on Windows to play
H.264-encoded video on HTML5 by using…


Microsoft Touts HTML5 as Internet Explorer 9 Performance Booster

Microsoft brought together more than 70 partner Websites at the San Francisco Design Centers exhibition hall to show off how Internet Explorer 9 takes advantage of HTML 5. – SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft rolled out the beta
version of Internet Explorer 9 here Sept. 15, claiming that its new
browser edition will provide the best performance on the Web by taking
advantage of the latest computer hardware, HTML5 and Windows 7.
Microsoft is counting on the enhancements in …


Adobe Brings HTML5 to Illustrator

Adobe launches its HTML5 Pack for Adobe Illustrator CS5. – Adobe Systems has announced the availability of the Adobe HTML5 Pack for
Adobe Illustrator Creative Suite 5 (CS5).
In May, at the Google I/O
conference, Adobe announced the Adobe HTML5 Pack, a set of HTML5 tools for
developers and designers that was an
extension to Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, the la…


AOL Android Apps, HTML5 Site Target Mobile Consumers

AOL July 22 launched two Google Android applications and opened a new smartphone portal and mobile Website to better compete with Google, Facebook and Twitter in the emerging mobile content market. – AOL July 22 moved to shore up its mobile
offerings, launching two Google Android applications and opening a new
smartphone portal and mobile Website.
The company, which is working hard to transform into an Internet-content
provider, is making a big bet on mobile to compete for eyeballs with Goog…


YouTube HTML5 site for iPhone, AT&T throttling is network defect, iPhone 4 signal won’t be fixed by firmware

The lack of support for Flash on Apple devices is infamous. YouTube has now launched a new mobile site for the iPhone and iPad that is made with HTML5.

Some iPhone 4 users have been reporting significantly decreased upload speed sin some areas. AT&T has announced that a defect in its network is causing the issue [...]

Opera Executive Talks iPhone, HTML5, Browser Momentum

Opera Software’s chief development officer, Christen Krogh, tells eWEEK that the high rate of adoption of Opera Mini for iPhone has aided the company’s attempts to penetrate the U.S. browser market and the coming months will see moves designed to take advantage of that momentum. Krogh also described HTML5 as an evolutionary format, predicting that within a year more developers would be using the standard to develop online content. Analytics company StatCounter sees Opera as the top mobile browser in the world by market share. – Opera Software hopes to capitalize on its recent momentum to increase its
browser’s presence in the United States,
Chief Development Officer Christen Krogh told eWEEK during a June 23 interview.

At least a portion of Opera’s momentum has come from the iPhone. After being
offered through the Ap…


Microsoft Delivers New IE 9 Preview with Canvas and HTML5 Video, Audio

Microsoft delivers a new preview version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9), the next major release of the companys dominant Web browser featuring support for the HTML Canvas tag and more. – Microsoft has delivered a new preview version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9),
the next major release of the company’s dominant Web browser featuring support
for the HTML Canvas tag and more.
This release, known as IE 9 Platform Preview 3 (IE 9 PP3), is the third update
of Microsoft’s IE 9 preview…


Akamai Launches Open Video Player for HTML5 Toolkit

Akamai, a provider of cloud-based services for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce, has released a new Open Video Player for HTML5 developer toolkit to simplify the task of creating flexible HTML5 based video player applications for delivery of HTTP content. – Akamai, a provider of cloud-based services for optimizing Web and
mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure
e-commerce, has released a new Open Video Player
for HTML5 developer toolkit to simplify the task of creating flexible
HTML5-based video player applications for delivery…


Google Chrome 5 Adds HTML5 Security Feature for Developers

In Chrome 5, Google has added support for an HTML5 feature that can help developers improve security by including a sandboxing attribute in iframes. – Google Chrome 5, the latest iteration of Google’s Web browser, is using a
new HTML5
feature to help Web developers improve security.
Google released the updated
Chrome browser May 24 with support for a sandbox attribute in iframes
that allows developers to reduce the privileges of parts of the…


Google Says VP8 Stands Out Among HTML5 Video Codecs

HTML5 looms large at the Google I/O developer conference, as Google and partners announce enhanced support for the rapidly emerging Web specification, including rallying around a video codec known as VP8. – HTML5 loomed large in the opening day of the Google I/O developer
conference, as Google and partners announced enhanced support for the rapidly
emerging Web specification, including rallying around a video codec known as
VP8.
During a May 18 keynote address, Sundar Pichai, vice president of prod…


Adobe Delivers HTML5 Tools for Dreamweaver CS5

Adobe Systems is providing a set of HTML5 tools for developers and designers, the Adobe HTML5 Pack. The company made the announcement at the Google I/O show. – Adobe Systems has announced a set of HTML5 tools for developers and
designers, the Adobe HTML5 Pack.
Adobe announced the tool set at the Google I/O conference in San
Francisco on May 18. The Adobe HTML5 Pack is an
extension to Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, the latest version of the industry-leading
H…


HTML5 Security Facts Developers Should Keep in Mind

Application security pros say HTML5 brings with it a new set of security concerns for developers. – <p>The war on the words between Apple and Adobe Systems has prompted plenty of
speculation about the fate of HTML5. But while& HTML5 remains (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html) a work in
progress, the one thing that is certain is developers who& adopt& HTML5
will have a new set of featur…


Mozilla Firefox 4 Browser Offers Better Performance, HTML5 Support

Mozilla Firefox Director Mike Beltzner has pulled back the curtain on Firefox 4, the next version of the popular open-source Web browser, which currently commands one-quarter of the market. The design of Firefox 4 seems to have three key goals: Mozilla wants it to be faster than any other browser on the market and able to handle emerging Web technologies such as HTML5. And Mozilla apparently has the additional goal of staving off the growing threat that is Google’s Chrome browser, which has grabbed over 6.7 percent of the market in a short period of time. However,Beltzner cautioned that Mozilla’s plans regarding Firefox 4 are subject to change, so don’t take his presentation, of which excerpts are shown here, as fact.
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Google Rewrites Google Docs with HTML5 Focus to Unseat Microsoft Office

Google April 12 said it has revised Google Docs using a new JavaScript layout engine and HTML5 to improve and speed up the document, drawing and spreadsheet editors in Docs.
Google is trying to make its Docs messaging and collaboration tools more suitable for today’s office workers, many of whom grew up working with Microsoft Office or IBM Lotus applications, which reside on users’ computers. However, Google is temporarily removing its Google Gears offline support for Docs beginning May 3. The idea is to improve Google’s offline functionality with more modern, HTML5-based Web browser technologies.

Google
said it has rewritten the code for Google Docs, using a new JavaScript layout
engine and leaning heavily on HTML5 to improve and speed up the document,
drawing and spreadsheet editors in Docs.
The company, which unveiled the upgrades at the
company’s Atmosphere cloud computing event at…


Brightcove Offers HTML5 Video for iPad

Brightcove supports the HTML5 standard as a means of delivering high-quality video on mobile devices such as Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch despite their lack of Flash support.
– Brightcove has come up with a
means of delivering high-quality video on popular devices such as Apple’s iPad,
iPhone and iPod Touch despite their lack of Flash support, by supporting the HTML5
standard.
Brightcove, which provides an online video platform, on March 29
quot;announced the Brightc…


Tiger Woods’ iPhone, iPhone advertising made easy, Pioneer adds new iPhone compatible AV receivers

Tiger Woods dug himself a deep hole when the story about his numerous affairs surfaced. Reports are now coming in that Woods’ iPhone was packed with porn and cartoons. Said porn was reportedly of the adult actress that was among his affairs.

I’m not sure this is a good thing, but Brighcove has announced a new [...]

Microsoft Touts HTML5, SVG Support in IE9 Platform Preview

With a stated love for Web standards such as HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 3 and Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG), Microsoft has released a Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, the next version of its browser, which promises to be more interoperable than ever.
– LAS VEGAS — With a stated love for Web standards such as HTML5,
Cascading Style Sheets 3 and Scaleable Vector Graphics,
Microsoft has released a Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, the
next version of its browser, which promises to be more interoperable
than ever.
At an IE9 Test Drive
ev…


Google: Goodbye Google Gears, Hello HTML5

It appears that Google is close to driving home the final nail into the Google Gears coffin.
– It appears that Google is close to driving home the final nail into the Google Gears coffin.
Google Gears is the search giant’s innovative
technology for enabling offline applications. However, toward the end
of 2009, Google announced that it was lessening its focus on Gears in
lieu of support f…