The HTML5 standard is now officially being recommended by the_World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The HTML5 standard has been around for years and powers many of your favorite sites. Today’s news from W3C (the international standards organization for the World Wide Web) says that after all those years of use, HTML5 is ready for prime time. HTML5 allows for native media playing in browsers. Previously, technologies like QuickTime and Flash were needed to play videos in a site’s page. The organization says that it worked with more than 60 companies getting the standard finalized and that over 4,000 bugs were...

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