LongTail Video, the creators of JW Player, have found in a study that as much as 74% of the browser market now supports HTML5 video, up from 66% in January. The study, The State of HTML5 Video, ...

Google this week added support for HTML5 playback of videos in its own Chrome browser as well as Safari from Apple. The new feature allows users to watch video without the longstanding Internet ...

HTML5 Web Storage: Session storageThe simplest level of Web Storage will store data for the current session — in other words, as long as the browser tab or window remains open. This may not be a hard ...

Facebook has revealed that its HTML5 site has twice as many users as its iOS and Android apps combined. But that’s actually a problem, because Apple and Google’s mobile browsers don’t support photo ...

For companies that compete with Microsoft, HTML5 is almost the Holy Grail, offering the ability to run applications regardless of the underlying operating system. While the browser isn’t more ...

This article appears in the February/March 2012 issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. When I was 6 years old, I had metal-capped front teeth, a lazy eye, ...

The boom in social and mobile gaming has irrevocably altered the landscape of the games industry, but in this business opportunities to rest on your laurels are few and far between. The reassuring ...

One of the pieces of functionality commonly discussed when distinguishing HTML5 from previous versions of HTML is the standardization of geolocation via the Geolocation API. Although some browsers ...

Beautiful demos, all in one place. It advances the argument for doing some great stuff in HTML5, but of course doesn't address the current concerns of good authoring tools, lack of browser support, ...

Anyone encoding video for the web has likely wondered if they should devote all their energy to creating HTML5 files and leave Flash behind. As StreamingMedia.com writer Jan Ozer pointed out during ...

In my last column, I discussed HTML5 support for offline storage and caching through the use of LocalStorage and SessionStorage. Continuing with the HTML5 focus, I want to investigate the new ...

You know a technology’s future doesn’t look promising when even the company that manages it has started offering a toolset for the competing approach. In August ...