• Microsoft boosts HTML5 video for Firefox on Windows 7

  Microsoft released on Wednesday a Firefox browser add-on extending HTML5-based video on the company's Windows 7 OS.

• Sencha offers HTML5 framework for mobile apps

  Sencha began offering on Monday Sencha Touch, an HTML5-based mobile application development framework for touch-based devices. The company also detailed plans for an upgrade to its Ext JS JavaScript framework.

• Microsoft, Adobe proclaim their love for HTML5

  Representatives of Microsoft and Adobe on Tuesday both espoused their companies' love for HTML5 technology at the HTML5 Live conference held within a few blocks of New York's Times Square, even though the vendors offer technologies perceived as HTML5 competitors.

• Google goes with HTML5 over Gears

  Google will end Gears, an open-source plug-in project it launched two years ago to allow Web applications to function even when a computer isn't connected to the Internet, according to a statement from the company.

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  Microsoft rebuffs Twitter protest over Outlook's rendering of HTML e-mails

  Showing again the power of Twitter for quick social organizing, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday was forced to defend itself against complaints that its market-leading Outlook e-mail program wreaks havoc on rich-HTML e-mails.

• First look: Firefox 4 Beta 1 shines on HTML5

  While it's impossible to sum up the thousands of enhancements and bug fixes both big and small, the Firefox 4 beta version brings the browser that much closer to taking over everything on the desktop. There are fewer reasons for anyone to interact with an extra plug-in or the operating system. Remember when people cared about whether a machine was Windows or Mac or a Commodore 64? Remember when software needed to be written in native code? Those days are fading away quickly as the browser is more able than ever before to deliver most of the content we might want.

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  Five ways to improve Web site uptime

  When the site GDGT.com went live this past summer, Ryan Block was expecting a lot of interest.

• Analysis: Is HTML e-mail dangerous for your PC, or just your eyeballs?

  Last week's online protest against Microsoft Outlook is turning out to be a tempest-in-a-Tweet.

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  HTML5 and security on the new web

  There are lots of changes happening to the key technologies that power the web. The new version of HTML, the dominant web language, offers impressive enhancements for rich web applications. But as HTML5 comes into greater use we’ll see new security issues arise. It’s typical for a new technology to have defects and pitfalls. And although the standard is still being defined, it's already being implemented. So how does HTML5 stand up to security scrutiny?