One of the pieces of functionality commonly discussed when distinguishing HTML5 from previous versions of HTML is the standardization of geolocation via the Geolocation API. Although some browsers ...

Via a developer partner, Google on Thursday is promoting HTML5 and Google APIs as offering a “new era of mobile apps.” The posting on the Google Code Blog, from nextstop co-founder Adrian Graham, ...

If HTML5 apps are to pick up the mantle from native releases in the years to come, ensuring developers can call on the same level of functionality is going to be key. PaymentOne's new mobile payment ...

One nifty feature of HTML5 is that web apps can store data locally on your computer and have it available even when you are offline. Google today introduced a new API for Chrome, the SyncFileSystem ...

Last spring document sharing portal Scribd launched an impressive new HTML5 engine that can render the site’s millions of documents in the browser, without Flash. Now fellow Y Combinator alum Crocodoc ...

Support for the HTML full-screen API was recently enabled in Firefox nightly builds. It allows web applications to toggle the browser into full-screen mode and stretch a single page element so that it ...

HTML5, the latest version of the language of the Web, was designed with Web applications in mind. It contains a slew of new application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to allow the Web ...