Looking to focus on the budding — and game-changing — HTML5 specification, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) said Thursday it plans to increase available resources for the effort by discontinuing ...

Although the failed effort may have been a work of "philosophical purity," it was overshadowed by HTML 5. Why are Web standards so darned hard to create? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

As the Web marches into the future, some developers say they're concerned about what will become of its past. At stake are new specifications approved by the Web's leading standards body that would ...

This article is excerpted from HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition, by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, with permission of O’Reilly Media, Inc. All ...

The World Wide Web Consortium is set to retire its XHTML 2 working group and concentrate its resources on HTML 5, highlighting its growing importance and development potential. HTML, or hypertext ...

Support for the next generation of HTML is already appearing in today’s browsers and Web pages. Are you ready to take advantage? Among Web developers, anticipation is mounting for HTML5, the overhaul ...

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 ...