The Firefox rapid release cycle is up and in full swing. The very nature of it resulted in two Firefox versions with barely any new and exciting features. Both Firefox 5 and Firefox 6, which has been released recently, suffered from lack of time to implement features in the browser. This is now going to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The web is moving towards HTML5 with all new browsers supporting the standard including Chrome, Firefox and the forthcoming Internet Explorer 9.  This new scripting language.  It adds new tags including <AUDIO><VIDEO> and the <CANVAS> tag that can be used for creating effective animation and text effects.  The language now allows you to embed all [...]

Categories: ghacks, Microsoft, The Web

Microsoft has sent out invites to a press event in the US on February 10th.  The “Internet Explorer” event in San Francisco will enable Microsoft to “share some important news” about the browser. The world is now seeing this as a launch event for the final version of the browser which will be crucial to [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer

The W3C consortium has unveiled the new logo for the HTML5 web scripting language, but why have they done this and is it really necessary? This has come as a surprise to many people as it’s the first version of the HTML language to have a logo.  This is no ordinary version of HTML though [...]

Categories: The Web

The HTML5 web video wars are heating up again, this time with the news that Google has announced to remove support for the h.264 codec from the Chrome browser in the next couple months. Google product manager Mike Jazayeri admits that ” H.264 plays an important role in video” but that Google has decided to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

There is still some confusion surrounding HTML5 video formats and which browser supports which. Mozilla Firefox for instance does not support the H.264 video format which means that users who encounter videos encoded in the format will not be able to view them in the browser, unless the site that is offering them is offering [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Microsoft has for years been accused of being shy about standard’s compliance.  For many years they said they could do the web better and, for many years the web went along with it. Recently though the company has taken a more pragmatic approach and has moved, slowly admittedly, towards full standards compliance.  With their next [...]

Categories: Microsoft

The popular video hosting site Youtube has been offering limited beta HTML5 viewing capabilities for some time now on their website. HTML5 video playback was limited to Google Chrome and Safari, and only directly available on Youtube after joining the beta channel. Webmasters and Internet users who wanted to embed videos on third party websites [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Someone must have flipped a switch over at the Opera headquarters in Norway. The developers of the popular Opera browser have accelerated development of the browser over the last months. The release of the highly acclaimed Opera 10.50 did not seem to have slowed down the developers who have now made available the first beta [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera