What is HTML5?

If you are confused about what HTML5 is and how it relates to other web technologies, Bruce Lawson has created a visual masterpiece of Michelangelian proportions to guide you. …

Did Apple weaken the case for HTML5 and strengthen Flash with their “HTML5 Showcase”?

My blog post on Friday about Apple's "HTML Showcase", which neither used a lot of actual HTML5, nor seemed to promote HTML5 as a cross-browser standard (it even requires QuickTime, apparently), received quite a bit of attention. Even though the blog post was written as a response to questions about why Opera and other browsers…