These days, the sentiment of anyone who doesn't know how to code being destined to a life of homeless ineptitude has become a fairly common (if mildly exaggerated) one. But of all the ways out there to save yourself from a derelict fate, Jon Duckett's HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites, is, perhaps, the most beautiful, information-packed intro to basic web languages you can find. Read More >>
Featured comment by EddyCJ:
"I deliberately have to stop myself from visiting that site during the pre-exam period - genuinely makes learning this stuff fascinating." More »
Netflix currently uses Microsoft's Silverlight plugin to run its streams. It's an inelegant solution that sometimes makes for subpar and bogged down streaming experiences. But Silverlight is possibly dying! And Netflix wants to get better! So Netflix is planning to move on from streaming on Silverlight and towards HTML5 video. When that happens, streaming movies on Netflix might suck less. Read More >>
Featured comment by flynndean:
"To be fair to Microsoft...this is exactly what has happened. They developed Silverlight...but are letting it die gradually in support of HTML 5. I rem..." More »
Sometimes a browser needs to leave a little data on your computer: just a little 5-10KB nibblit, a cookie. HTML5 is a hungrier beast than that which came before it though, and sometimes wants a little more. Maybe 5MB or so. But that's where it should end. Thanks to a wee HTML5 vulnerability, however, this site can and will fill your entire hard drive with cats. Read More >>
Featured comment by NicholasTimothyJones:
"I do. I then refresh the site and it jumps up to the previous number VERY fast. Last I tried, it took 3 seconds to jump back up to 500mb after taking ..." More »
The Freesat platform's about to get a very exciting and innovative new channel, with the free-to-air satellite option set to launch a standalone YouTube channel app that'll work without the need for you to screw around with a separate streaming box. Read More >>
Business Insider believes HTML5 apps are primed to overtake native apps on smartphones in the coming years. Steve Jobs was also big on webapps when the iPhone first came out—sans native app ecosystem—but didn't have the benefit of the HTML5 standard. Now that HTML5 is here, there are apps that come very very close to replicating the native app experience. Read More >>
Featured comment by famousdave:
"Facebook's app was poor because Apple don't let native apps UIWebView use the speedy Javascript engine. Also, HTML5 cannot do Push notifications.
I..." More »
Today marks the end of the road for the Flash Player app on Google Play, as Adobe yank out the app from the store, with further updates only coming to those who already have it downloaded and installed on their device. Read More >>
I know there are times when you're cruising down the Internet highway, looking for a laugh as your hair is being blown back by AC when you stumble upon something so annoying that you start shaking your monitor and hope that it just blows up. It happens to all of us. We never do anything. But now you can. Read More >>
The days are numbered for those rubbishy Flash-based games that litter the time-waster game space. We’ve already seen Quake III Arena play in your browser, but that needed a plug-in. Now meet the Half-Life Headcrab that’s rendered, incredibly, using just HTML5 and WebGL – now this is what I call internet gaming. Read More >>
Featured comment by MENTAL1ST:
"Yay! Thanks to the wonders of half-implemented HTML technologies, my 12-core graphics workstation can play non-interactive animations of characters fr..." More »
Brandon Generator is the name of a new, all-star comic book creation, that's being overseen by famed director Edgar Wright, with art coming from Marvel man Tommy Lee Edwards. The only way it can fail is if the stories are rubbish. Which is where you come in. Read More >>
In the GPS wars, Google's free turn-by-turn navigation for Google maps pretty much pulled the rug out from under the rather expensive competition. Putting yet another nail in TomTom's coffin, TeleNav's joining the free navigation party, but it's doing it with the world's first in-browser HTML5 navigation app. Read More >>
Featured comment by almostfamous:
"Think I'll stick with Tomtom. Although you don't lose data connection often, it always seems to happen at the point when you need it most." More »
Last.fm has teamed up with Microsoft's IE9 people for a nice bit of brand cross-promotion, which sees the pair releasing a custom Last.fm web player, built in HTML5, and enhanced for users of Internet Explorer 9. Read More >>
Featured comment by badgerbalti:
"Built with lots of javascript it should say, and they even load some of that off of the Google apis cdn rather than Microsoft's." More »
If there are two things I love, it's safe sex and HTML5. Bedsider, an "internet community" aimed at not getting you or your friend knocked up, is a terrific, kooky source of contraceptive gems. The best part? Giant condom wall! Read More >>
Bing's trying all it can to differentiate itself from Google and carve out a decent chunk of the search market. One of their initiatives has been fancy backgrounds, which Google can do too of course, but now they've taken it one stage further. Read More >>
The ePub e-book standard has always been built on top of HTML. As has MOBI. But now, Amazon is taking it one step further with their Kindle Format 8 standard, supporting HTML5-based formatting options. Future Kindle Fire owners, be happy. Read More >>
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