Building apps in HTML5 and JavaScript may be easier than using other development tools, but there's still a learning curve. In the following interview, "Programming HTML5 Applications" author ...

HTML5 has potential. That was the message of Steve Heffernan's introduction to the How To: Building an HTML5 Video Player demonstration at Streaming Media East, and it was likely the funniest ...

With HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, you can build some pretty nice little games — and without a significant up-front investment. If you’re comfortable with just these technologies, you’re pretty ...

Google's video codec has significant support, but building it into the standard language for Web pages would advance its fortunes significantly. Mozilla trying to build VP8 into HTML5 video - CNET X ...

If you want to make a great game it is essential to make it fun. No set of tools and technologies, no matter how good, can make a bad game good. I’ve seen many bad games built in HTML5.

In addition to HTML5, the team also used a handful of lesser-known free and open-source tools, such as Backbone and Underscore, in developing the apps. “The way our mobile web app works is it ...

Joe Hewitt helped build Firefox, he built the wildly popular developers' tool Firebug and then he single-handedly created one of the world's most widely used iPhone apps: the Facebook app. Today ...

Build 2011: HTML5 + JS ‘First-Class Citizens,’ Silverlight Takes a Back Seat. Scott fulton / Last Updated: Sep 13, 2011 / Hack. The new development platform for so-called Metro apps is called ...

There's no shortage of HTML5 games (or developers for that matter) out there, but most of them don't offer much competition for more graphically-intensive, engrossing native games. “You can run ...

Disney has acquired an HTML5 gaming engine startup called Rocket Pack, based out of Helsinki, Finalnd. A Disney spokesperson told us today, exclusively: “We can confirm that The Walt Disney ...

Some day, plug-ins will be a thing of the past. At his recent Streaming Media West presentation on how to build a streaming HTML5 video player, Jeff Tapper, chief architect with Digital Primates, ...