Displaying items by tag: HTML5

In case you'd missed it, Apple and Adobe are locked in a battle. It's a battle over which standards will prevail in our web browsers. On one side, Adobe and its Flash platform is the reigning champion. Flash has been the powerhouse behind the distribution of video and other rich web content. But coming out of the other corner is the challenger. With the muscle of Safari running on the mobile powerhouses of the iPhone and iPad, Apple is seeking to break Adobe's hold by embracing HTML5.

In Google's vision of the future all apps will run in the cloud and be executed on computers with 'super browsers' - all conforming to the same open standards. But the vision goes beyond this to embrace the idea of application access and execution continuing as users move from device to device.

A free extension for Adobe's Dreamweaver web authoring tool provides HTML5 support.

Chrome beta 5 shows significant speed improvement and new features - including Flash support.

The first preview release of Internet Explorer 9 is available, and it's looking pretty snappy.

Google will migrate all Gears functionality to HTML5 and eventually allow Gears to fade to black.