While HTML5 has anchored the open web platform, the platform itself has increasingly become bigger than just HTML, Jaffe said. So the W3C is working on security, performance, and streaming.

The same can be said for HTML and SEOs today. 1. ... HTML5 goes a step further and provides several new ways for webmasters to instruct search engines on how to handle a particular link.

HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is a set of instructions programmers use to build a Web page out of text, graphics and -- new to HTML5 -- video and audio.

The same is often true for HTML5: the same markup doesn’t produce the same results, and to get the same results, you need to write different markup. This is the bigger issue.

After nearly eight years of work, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finalized the HTML5 standard, bringing the basic Web technology firmly into the era of mobile devices and cloud-driven ...

HTML5 technologies such as Canvas, for 2-D drawing on a Web page, are being promoted by heavyweights in the Internet space such as Apple, Google, and Mozilla.(Although Microsoft itself has given a ...

In the year 2000, HTML4 was christened the official language for web page development. A decade later, an eternity on the web, we are just beginning to hear about the next generation of HTML - HTML5.

Just as CDs replaced tapes as a more efficient means of playing music, and digital files replaced CDs to do the same, HTML5 is making Flash obsolete.