HTML5

Windows 10 Update Will Get Rid of Flash Once and for All

Adobe Flash, the multimedia software platform that powered so many pre-YouTube animated videos like Homestar Runner, is officially ancient technology. As of December 31, 2020, Adobe stopped supporting the software, and now Microsoft is telling every Windows 10 user it’s time to ditch it if they haven’t already. A new Windows 10 update from Microsoft,…

Google Sticks Another Knife in Flash’s Corpse

The killing blow to multimedia software Flash made contact with its skull in 2017, when maker Adobe announced that it would begin Flash’s “end-of-life” phase and stop updating and distributing it by the end of 2020. Flash—which nerds of a certain age cohort may remember from sites like Newgrounds or files like “annoying.swf”—has been riddled…

The death of Flash continues apace: live video-streaming giant Twitch is the latest major player to ditch Flash video in favor of HTML5. It’s rolled out new HTML5 player controls to pave the way for a full handover to the video-streaming master race in the (hopefully near) future. [Twitchvia Engadget] Contact the author at [email protected].

This Is the Most Beautiful Way to Learn How to Code

These days, the sentiment of anyone who doesn’t know how to code being destined to a life of homeless ineptitude has become a fairly common (if mildly exaggerated) one. But of all the ways out there to save yourself from a derelict fate, Jon Duckett’s HTML and CSS: Design and Buil Websites, is, perhaps, the…

Thanks to HTML5, Streaming Movies on Netflix Might Suck Less

Netflix currently uses Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin to run its streams. It’s an inelegant solution that sometimes makes for subpar and bogged down streaming experiences. But Silverlight is possibly dying! And Netflix wants to get better! So Netflix is planning to move on from streaming on Silverlight and move towards HTML5 video. When that happens, streaming…

Thanks To HTML5 This Website Can Fill Your Whole Hard Drive with Cats

Sometimes a browser needs to leave a little data on your computer, just a little 5-10KB nibblit, a cookie. HTML5 is a hungrier beast than that which came before it though, and sometimes wants a little more. Maybe 5MB or so. But that’s where it should end. Thanks to a little HTML5 vulnerability, however, this…

Would You Rather Have HTML5 Apps or Native Apps on Your Smartphone?

Business Insider believes HTML5 apps are primed to overtake native apps on smartphones in the coming years. Steve Jobs was also big on webapps when the iPhone first came out—sans native app ecosystem—but didn’t have the benefit of the HTML5 standard. Now that HTML5 is here, there are apps that come very very close to…

Here’s How to Blow Up Websites You Don’t Like with Bombs

I know there are times when you’re cruising down the Internet highway, looking for a laugh as your hair is being blown back by AC when you stumble upon something so annoying that you start shaking your monitor and hope that it just blows up. It happens to all of us. We never do anything.…

Here’s How You Make a Documentary Only Using HTML5 and WebGL Graphics

One Millionth Tower is part of Highrise, a series of mini-documentaries about the history of high rise towers and their effect on society. What sets this one apart from the others is that it was made using HTML5 technologies such as WebGL and Javascript. The entire documentary is rendered using WebGL graphics, audio and and…

Amazon’s Kindle E-Books Welcome HTML5 With Open Arms

The ePub e-book standard has always been built on top of HTML. As has MOBI. But now, Amazon is taking it one step further with their Kindle Format 8 standard, supporting HTML5-based formatting options. Future Kindle Fire owners, be happy. As TechCrunch points out, this means that devices utilizing KF8 will have a wider range…

Pandora’s New Look Is Live for the Masses

Pandora’s HTML5-focused revamp is now live for all users. And it looks great, having streamlined just about all the features that you’ve come to love while adding some new social features. https://gizmodo.com/pandoras-new-design-is-all-about-the-social-5820636 Right from the jump, you’ll notice things are much faster. Not just loading, but creating and controlling stations for your listening pleasure is…

Build Websites Without Having Any Coding Knowledge, With Adobe Muse

Adobe has a new Muse—graphic designers. While “Muse” is just a working title, the beta of the graphic design software has gone live which lets users work around the fact they don’t know a scrap of code. This means they can publish HTML websites without actually writing any CSS3 or HTML5. Check out the free…

Two-Player iPad and Android Game Olo Is Finger-Flickin’ Fun

Proving that sometimes the best games are the simplest, the boules-like game Olo works in the browser for iPad and iPhone thanks to CSSS3 and HTML5, but Android users can also download it here. [Olo via SwissMiss]

Twitter’s Growing Up With a Beautiful HTML5 Website For iPad

So Twitter is axing the old interface on Twitter.com, force-upgrading everyone to the shinier version. Know what else is changing? Twitter.com for iPad, as Twitter adopts HTML5 and pushes out a full version of the site. No more mobile version! [TechCrunch]

Adobe Edge May Become Beginning of the End for Flash

Adobe’s Edge is a new animation tool that outputs pure HTML5. It has great potential and it will take over Flash for simple to medium projects. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if this kills Flash forever in the long run. It’s available now for free, for both Macs and Windows, and “enables users to add…

Pandora’s New Design Is All About the Social

Pandora just switched from Flash to HTML5 for its fetching redesign, but that’s not the real news. The biggest thing about the change is that Pandora is different inside and out, its functionality now rooted firmly in being social. Pandora will show its new face to Pandora One customers first, and then to everyone else…

In So Many Words, Microsoft Calls WebGL the Devil

Microsoft officially hates WebGL. They say the HTML5-supported graphics technology, which allows for 3D graphics in browsers without the need for special plugins, overexposes computer hardware to potential attacks on the internet. As such, future Microsoft products (such as Internet Explorer), won’t support the technology. This bummed me out for a second, because I value…

YouTube Changes Its Video Codec to WebM

From now on, any video you upload to YouTube will be transcoded into Google’s WebM codec, joining the “videos that make up 99% of views on the site or nearly 30% of all videos.” Google explains it to the non-tech savvy folk like so: https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-save-web-video-with-the-new-webm-form-5542688 “If you travel abroad frequently, you know that charging your…

TweetDeck Sharing the Browser Client Love Everywhere

…everywhere except IE9 and Opera. But all the rest are invited to sign up for a closed beta of TweetDeck’s no-download-needed HTML5 client. The features and UI are the same as the Chrome plug-in (sans streaming). [TweetDeck via TechCrunch]

Firefox VP Thinks Flash Is Crazy Too

When asked a question whether Flash is going to become irrelevant, Jay Sullivan, VP of Products, said: “I think so in the long run. A lot of it has to do with HTML5. With Firefox 4, Internet Explorer 9, and Chrome, to the extent that we provide functionality in enough browsers, then the developers will…