html5

Understanding The Open Web Stack

Technology “stacks” have been around for years. At best, a technology stack provides a means of visualizing the way a group of technologies work together. At worst, it ends up looking like a convoluted “follow the blind hamster” maze of confusion. In Web standards and the “Open Web,” we in the industry have definitely been [...]

Will the Next Web Platform Please Hold Still?

Here is a seemingly simple enough question: What’s the minimum level of browser support provided by your team’s Web site? If your answer is Internet Explorer 6, which officially died in October 2006, then every browser maker today including Microsoft will tell you that’s not what it should be. You’re not taking advantage of the [...]

6 Reasons Why HTML5 is More than Just Another Web Toolkit

Quality Assurance’s greatest accomplishments arise when it does something most employees don’t even recognize as its job: eliminating difficulties before they exist, for instance. You probably can think of examples from your own experience, such as the time a QA professional identified and rejected a project “requirement” as untestable or problematic before it was accepted [...]