In proper fashion, Facebook didn't make the new HTML5 web app available for the iPad, leaving users to the bulky desktop site while browsing in Safari. But with this trick, you can use Facebook's ...

In terms of the scope and effort, the HTML5 effort has an earlier historical analogy in the HTML 3.0 spec. Back in April of 1995, the HTML 3.0 spec was drafted as a backwards-compatible way of adding ...

There’s been lots written about the politics and process of the emerging HTML5 specification (see “What to expect from HTML5” and “How HTML5 will change the Web,” as just two examples), but what ...

The World Wide Web Consortium finishes an update to this seminal Internet technology, but with two organizations in charge of the same Web standard, charting the Web's future is a mess. Stephen ...

If you’ve ever tried to wrestled your way through the complexities of the HTML5 specification, we’ve got good news — there’s now a “web developer edition.” The main HTML5 spec can be overwhelming for ...

Ever since we got the green light to start an iPad application for FRONTLINE, the main question we’ve gotten from tech people is whether we’re going to have an app at all – or whether we’re going to ...

If your organisation is still getting to grips with smartphone apps it may be in for a shock - an even newer class of app is bearing down, one which promises to cut multi-platform development hassles ...

A security researcher has found a loophole in how the HTML5 Web Storage standard is implemented in the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Apple Safari browsers that could allow malicious websites ...

The newest specs for HTML forms give programmers more control over data input and validation, while offloading much of the work to the browsers The changes and enhancements to the form tags are some ...