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We would have liked to do our own review of the newly released Apple Safari 5. But, we are more into HTML5. (That’s why this post goes into unrelated posts section, despite us have a separate browsers section). So, I am posting a video review by a casual user on YouTube for you to get [...]
In a blog post by Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft confirmed that it will provide support for Google’s recently open sourced VP8 video codec. The post was primarily aimed at the benefits of H.264 codec and the firm support of Microsoft behind the codec. But, Dean mentioned the following thing about VP8: In its HTML5 support, IE9 [...]
Bitstream updated its mobile browser Bolt with the latest version 2.1 and has added features for HTML5 support. BOLT is a mobile Internet browser created for mobile phones of all categories – from low-end “feature phones” to high end smartphones. I downloaded the latest version on a Nokia 2700 classic and ran the HTML5 compliance [...]
Google announced the latest beta version 5 of its ever-growing browser Chrome in a blogpost. Touting it as the fastest beta yet, Google says that the new browser will have 30% and 35% improvements on the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks. But what interests us is the whole set of HTML5 features implemented in this new [...]
Skyfire 2.0 is being described as “making run flash” on mobile phones. Skyfire simply converts flash videos into HTML5 video in the cloud, which all major mobile phone platforms support. Not only flash, in the future Skyfire could also support Silverlight, Quicktime and WindowsMedia. Skyfire is a mobile web browser currently being offered for Android, [...]
Now, we are a relatively new site, one month old today. We use Google Analytics to track our site’s visits. Most of our visits are from Google News as we are yet not a well known brand. Some people do come through our RSS feed subscriptions and Google Reader. But, that’s a pretty small number. [...]
We earlier reported on a test for HTML5 compliance and now we bring you another site which shows in a snapshot what features are currently supported by the various browsers. The site is html5readiness.com which can be a good tool to find out the common denominator of features supported by all the browsers. The site [...]
Microsoft got on board very late to the HTML5 party. One of the reasons was it did not need a new standard (HTML5) for web, when its browser Internet explorer was a standard in itself. That was when IE occupied a comfortable position in the web browser share. Also, Microsoft wouldn’t want the browsers to [...]
On an update on 27th January 2010, Youtube did start supporting fullscreen mode in HTML5 videos. However, the said functionality does not work with, guess what, Google Chrome. This is what is specifically mentioned on Youtube: 1/27/2010: Fullscreen support enabled (if supported by browser) So, which browser is supported. Here’s a possible answer. Looks like [...]
