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HTML5 or Flash? With Yokto’s New Video Player, You Don’t Have To Choose
Yokto is a newly launched video platform which offers an embeddable player that intelligently switches between a Flash-based interface or HTML5, depending on the device being used to view the…
Windows SkyDrive Says Sayonara To Silverlight, Embraces HTML5
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about consumer cloud services. There’s Apple’s recently-announced iCloud, Amazon’s Cloud Drive, Google’s Music Beta (which is your music in the cloud) and, of course,…
FunChat Combines Text, Chat, Pranks, Virtual Goods, And Social Gaming All In One Free App
FunMobility, the makers of FunMail, a picture-messaging app that organically pairs your texts with appropriate (and fun) images, FunTones, a large collection of funny ringtones, and FunMe, a suite of…
Pusher Raises $1M From Heroku Founders And More To Bring Realtime Tech To Your Apps
On today’s ever-evolving Web, it seems there’s a growing demand for web apps that incorporate realtime functionality. Of course, it’s by no means easy to build seamless realtime functionality, as…
appMobi Acquires Hosting Platform; Launches Tech To Speed Up HTML5 In Mobile Gaming
ppMobi likes HTML5-based mobile games, and it wants you to like them, too, which is why appMobi is focused on giving developers the tools required to make HTML5 and JavaScript…
FT Bypasses Apple's iTunes, Launches HTML5 Web App (Free Access First Week)
The Financial Times would rather not have Apple take a 30 percent cut of in-app subscriptions for its iOS publications, and has launched a HTML5 Web app that enables readers…
As Apple Ponders Their Subscription Ruling, Readability Goes Full HTML5
A few weeks ago, Readability got word that their iPhone app was rejected by Apple. While obviously, that’s never good news, this was especially hard to take because the reason for…
MeFeedia Reports 63 Percent Of Web Video Is HTML5-Friendly
The battle between Flash and HTML5 has largely revolved around video, with Flash proponents pointing out how lame it is to open up your browser on an iPad and not…
Behold The Brand New HTML5 Logo
HTML5, the next major revision of the HTML standard you’ve most certainly heard of as a TechCrunch reader, now comes with added logo, courtesy of W3C. The logo is available…
Flash Free: Aviary Hatches A Lightweight HTML5 Photo Editor For The Web
Aviary is very good at what they do. That is, offering relatively powerful tools for amateur artists to edit content online. But all of those tools are Flash-based. And some…
Google's Nifty Guide To Web Technology; It's iBooks-Like But Built With HTML5
In what they’re calling a throwback to the original comic book they released to announce the launch of Chrome, Google has today unveiled a new site meant to educate users…
Once a year around this time, Brightcove rolls out a bunch of new features to its online video platform and calls it a new release. With Brightcove 5, this year…
The Father Of CSS Talks HTML5, CSS3 (A TCTV Interview)
Lots of abbreviations in the title and URL, but with an audience like TechCrunch’s I’m not too worried about the point coming across or not. At this week’s Opera press…
min.us is a new and super simple way to make online slideshows. Simply drag photos from your computer to your browser window and you’ve got a slideshow. Each show gets…
In The Coming HTML5 Browser Wars, The Markup Should Remain The Same
On Monday, Google made a big splash with a customized Arcade Fire video page that showed off all the cool things HTML5 can do, from video, animations and 3D rendering…
Google Chrome Shows Off What HTML5 Can Do With Arcade Fire Video
Google is a big proponent of HTML5, especially for video and rich graphics in the browser. To show off what HTML5 can do, Google Chrome teamed up with the Arcade…
IAB Sets Up Tablet Task Force, Praises The iPad And HTML5, Badmouths Flash
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced that it has formed the Tablet Task Force, a group comprised of publishing and interactive industry executives, in order to “help create an…
Apple Unveils A New HTML5/Web Standards Showcase — Safari Required
Under fire for its App Store not being more open, recently, Apple’s response has been that there is a portion of its devices that is totally open: the web. If…
Survey: Up To Half Of All Media Sites Plan To Support The iPad And HTML5 Video
As everyone on the Web knows by now, Steve Jobs does not think too highly of Flash and therefore you cannot watch Flash videos on the the iPad (or the…
Netflix Is The Latest To Talk The HTML5 Talk
As we all know, the battle between Flash and HTML5 for the future of online video is raging. But what about that other plugin some sites use for video? You…
A Sneak Peek At TweetDeck's HTML5 Browser App (Screenshots And Video)
Today, during Google I/O, for about a minute on the stage screen there was a sneak peek at an HTML5 browser version of TweetDeck, the popular stream reader. In the…
Sports Illustrated Shows Off An HTML5 Magazine
Today at Google I/O , Sports Illustrated editor Terry McDonell took the stage to show off a version of the magazine in HTML5. It looked pretty much like SI’s tablet…
How Much Web Video Is iPad-Ready? About Two-Thirds. Really.
A couple weeks ago, in the wake of Steve Jobs’ tirade against Flash and why the iPad won’t support it, I wanted to find out exactly how much video out…
Microsoft Agrees With Apple And Google: "The Future Of The Web Is HTML5"
Did we mention that 2010 would be a big year for HTML5? Apple and Google are pushing it big time, and now so is Microsoft. When Internet Explorer 9 comes…
You've Got A Date With FAIL, It's On Your Google Calendar
Google wants us to move all of our data to the cloud. And yet, they keep having issues where a service that many people rely heavily on goes down. The…
Facebook Considering HTML5, Won't Talk iPad App
Earlier today, there was a lot of hubbub over Facebook supposedly enabling HTML5 video playback on their website. This would, of course, allow Facebook videos to be played natively within…
Google Shows How HTML5 Can Run Quake In The Browser
A lot of attention lately has been put on the video capabilities of HTML5 browsers, since the iPad doesn’t support Flash. It turns out not to really matter that much…
No Flash On The iPad? No Problem. Brightcove Turns Videos Into HTML5.
The lack of Flash on the iPad is a sore point for many and often listed as one of its greatest potential weaknesses. Not allowing Flash on the iPhone is…
In Mobile, Fragmentation is Forever. Deal With It.
Mobile data is on fire. Despite a few false starts, we are now in the midst of a transformative “Open Mobile 3rd Wave” (remember WAP, and J2ME?). We are just…
Google Officially Deadpools Gears For Safari. Puts It On Death Watch For Firefox And IE.
While digging through the Chromium forums back in November looking for clues about the then-unreleased Chrome for Mac beta, we stumbled on an interesting bit of information: Google was moving…
