There’s been lots written about the politics and process of the emerging HTML5 specification (see “What to expect from HTML5” and “How HTML5 will change the Web,” as just two examples), but what ...

Cookies have long been the primary way to save information to a user’s browser. Whether it’s login info, preference settings or generic form data, most web developers turn to browser cookies. But ...

Full-fledged Web apps are proving the power of HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript and providing great examples of how best to use the latest scripts and tags HTML5 is more than a few years old and no longer a ...

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 ...

WordPress and other CMS applications have made it a walk in the park to run a website these days, and quite a great one at that. However, when it comes to making a very customized website, or one that ...

Meta tags aren’t a magical solution, but they will help ensure your website appears on search engine results pages. This tutorial explains what HTML meta tags are, which meta tags matter, and how to ...

Firefox and Safari partially support it, Google's Wave and Chrome projects are banking on it, and most web developers are ecstatic about what it means. It's HTML5, and if you're not exactly sure what ...

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a text-based approach to describing how content contained within an HTML file is structured. This markup tells a web browser how to display text, images and other ...

Learn how to use HTML5 to plot points on a map and determine current position This article is an excerpt from the book HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers published by Pearson/Addison-Wesley ...

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, ...