Neowin News Feed for: Html5

Epic Citadel HTML5 demo launched; IE browsers are left out

John Callaham — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:01:28 +0100

Epic Games has launched a version of its free Unreal Engine 3 demo, Epic Citadel, for HTML5 browsers. However, the demo won't work on any Internet Explorer browsers due to its lack of WebGL support. Read more...

Microsoft's IE Test Drive site celebrates 3rd birthday, 130 million page views

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:45:20 +0000

Microsoft announced that its IE Test Drive web pages have generated over 130 million page views since going live three years ago for over 140 HTML5-based web demos. Read more...

More on how Vyclone's HTML5 video editing feature was made

John Callaham — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:30:44 +0000

A new post on the Internet Explorer blog goes into more detail on how the recently announced HTML5-based video editing feature from Vyclone was created, along with example code. Read more...

Microsoft launches new Minesweeper website as IE10 benchmark

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:15:24 +0000

Microsoft has launched a new Minesweeper website that's designed to also be a benchmark for HTML5-based web browsers, including the new Windows 7 version of Internet Explorer 10. Read more...

Microsoft's IE team helps to expand Contre Jour website

John Callaham — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:14:01 +0000

Microsoft's Internet Explorer team is once again helping to assist the development team at Pixel Lab to expand their web-based game Contre Jour with 20 new levels that cover two new worlds. Read more...

Microsoft helps with making HTML5-based custom sneaker website

John Callaham — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:40:00 +0000

Microsoft has announced it has helped with the creation of a new HTML5-based website, PMK Design Labs, that lets customers of sneaker creator PMK Customs make their own shoes. Read more...

HTML5 game developer feels IE10 lacks important features

John Callaham — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:08:01 +0000

Developer Scirra has posted up its thoughts on Internet Explorer 10 running HTML5-based games, claiming that its performance lags compared to other browsers due to IE10 not using certain APIs. Read more...

Microsoft's HTML5 showcase continues with Contre Jour

Brad Sams — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:31:33 +0100

Microsoft has been a massive proponent of HTML5 and they are continuing to show their support behind the platform by helping to bring Contre Jour to the browser. Make the jump to find out how to play. Read more...

Native Android Facebook application in its final testing phase

Jake Durasamy — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:09:46 +0100

Information has just come forward which suggests Facebook's hinted native Android application is in its final testing phase. The new application will fix a bad call made regarding the use of HTML5. Read more...

Microsoft and Atari team up to relive your childhood with HTML5

Brad Sams — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:00:14 +0100

Microsoft and Atari have teamed up to show off the power of HTML5 by bringing some of your childhood games to the web browser. Make the jump to learn more and get your hands dirty on these games. Read more...

Pulse pulls Windows Phone app from download store

John Callaham — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:49:44 +0100

Pulse has pulled its nearly year old Windows Phone news app from the official Windows Phone Store, the same day that Microsoft promoted Pulse's new HTML5 web-based application. Read more...

IE and HTML5 do a little dance, build a little catalog

Brad Sams — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:57:02 +0100

The Internet Explorer team really loves HTML5 and they also love to show it off too. In this edition of HTML demos, the team has paired up with TheFind to build a new shopping experience. Read more...

New Chrome beta poses security risks

Alfonso Maruccia — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:03:36 +0100

The recently released beta version of the Google browser presents new ways to access a computer's camera and microphone. But it could be a true gift for cyber-criminals, security experts warn. Read more...

Mozilla announces Firefox OS branding for Boot to Gecko

John Callaham — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:06:28 +0100

Mozilla has announced a new name for its mobile operating system, Firefox OS (formerly Boot to Gecko) and that the first devices with the OS will launch in Brazil in early 2013. Read more...

Microsoft: Sites using IE 10 and HTML5 load 30 percent faster

John Callaham — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:23:42 +0100

Microsoft has announced that websites running on HTML5 load 30 percent faster on Internet Explorer 10 when they are switched to running on Standards Mode, with load times improved on IE 9 as well. Read more...

Shumway: Mozilla wants to virtualize Flash

Alfonso Maruccia — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:07:33 +0100

A new open source project backed by Mozilla aims at making Flash run within a browser standard environment: no need to install external plug-ins anymore. That's it, if the project succeeds. Read more...

Mozilla preps Marketplace public beta

Tyler Holman — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:16:42 +0100

Mozilla is getting ready to move Mozilla Marketplace into public beta over the next few weeks, bringing a (sorta) platform neutral app platform to users worldwide, and making Firefox 99% more awesome. Read more...

Microsoft and Fox team up to build HTML5 Prometheus website

Brad Sams — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:46:42 +0100

Microsoft and Fox Studio's have teamed up to build a new website built purely with HTML5 to show the power of this platform. Take a look after the jump to see if you can pass the test. Read more...

Latest build of IE10 shows benchmark improvement, Windows 8 boot screen updated

Brad Sams — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:52:29 +0100

It should not come as a surprise that Microsoft is refining Windows 8 as a new build of IE10 has improved on its HTML5 score and there is also a new splash screen. Read more...

Making websites work well with touch-based IE 10

John Callaham — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:59:53 +0100

The latest post on the official Internet Explorer blog gives some hints to website makers on how they can make sure their sites work well with the touch-based IE 10 browser in Windows 8. Read more...