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The World Wide Web Consortium, faced with derision that its new HTML5 logo represented a broader set of Web technologies, has pared down the logo’s scope. “Since the main logo was intended to represent HTML5, the cornerstone of modern Web applications, I have updated the FAQ to state this more clearly. I trust that the [...]

OSLO, Norway–With extensions coming to Opera 11, the Norwegian browser maker says it’s time to consider making the technology a standard for all browsers. That’s because Opera 11 extensions will use the same collection of Web page technologies–HTML for page contents, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for formatting, JavaScript for processing–as extensions in Google’s Chrome, Apple’s [...]

Google is among the browser makers rushing to accelerate their software by tapping into the power of a computer’s graphics hardware, but it appears that ability will have to wait for Chrome 9. Just as Google branched off the code that will become Chrome 8 work early this morning, indicating that it’s time to iron [...]

Fulfilling a pledge to hasten the pace of Chrome releases, Google has issued its first beta edition of Chrome 7, but the big new changes in the browser come with a new developer-oriented release. The new beta, Chrome 7.0.517.24, matches that of Tuesday’s developer-channel release. That doesn’t include too much directly visible to users–the about:labs [...]

Adobe Systems has released an add-on package for its Illustrator CS5 design editor that will allow developers to export their designs to the Web and mobile platforms, using the emerging HTML5 set of Web formats. With these capabilities, designers can build out a visual display once and export it to multiple platforms, such as Web [...]

Mozilla said it hopes to release its second beta version of Firefox 4 “on or about July 22,” bringing Mac users a major new user interface that the first beta enabled by default only on Windows. That feature, called tabs on top, follows the look of Google Chrome and Opera, in which tabs get top [...]

Charles Jolley, one of the primary creators of the SproutCore programming tools for building rich Web applications, has left Apple and struck off on his own to start a new company based on the technology. Jolley announced the new start-up, Strobe Digital Publishing, in a blog post last week, saying the new company will continue [...]

Internet Explorer has reversed a years-long slide in browser usage, at least for the month of June, reclaiming share at the expense of Firefox. IE increased usage from 59.8 percent to 60.3 percent, according to new statistics from Net Applications, an analytics company that monitors browser usage across a large network Web sites. It was [...]

Google is among the biggest proponents of a collection of Web technologies that reproduce many important features of Adobe Systems’ Flash, but it’s not yet time for regime change at YouTube. One of the most important parts of the upcoming HTML5 standard is support for video that can be built directly into Web page without [...]

64-bit versions of Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux now are in widespread use, and software for the operating systems is following suit. So it may seem a bit backward that Adobe withdrew its only 64-bit version of Flash Player. But don’t take the disappearance of Adobe Labs’ experimental 64-bit Flash Player for Linux as [...]