Fans of the popular Flash-to-HTML crunching Skyfire browser on the iPhone (and many other platforms) will be happy to know that the Skyfire team is working on an iPad-specific version. At the time of writing, there aren’t many details to share. Ok, there aren’t any details to share. For a possible release date keep checking back. So far, my personal experience with Skyfire has been pretty good. The only hiccups were around launch day when the servers...

Yesterday we told you that Skyfire was officially coming to iOS this Thursday at 9am. Well, we were wrong — but in a good way. Apple jumped the gun because Skyfire is now live in the App Store! A quick refresher as to why you should care about Skyfire: Play millions of embedded flash videos Desktop/Mobile options Private Browsing …And pure blinding speed There’s plenty more to like about Skyfire, but you should really experience it for yourself. ...

It isn’t often that we praise Internet Explorer for it’s web savy, specification prowess. But IE9 is turning out to be quite a contender in the desktop browser wars. Let the image above do the talking — you can see it’s speed and fairly standards compliant. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that the HTML 5 isn’t finished yet. Several tantalizing features of HTML 5 like web workers, file API’s, local storag, and several other...

Site owners and social bugs: how would you like it if YouTube spit out some embed code that automatically served up HTML5 or Flash versions on the fly depending on the end users’ system? New tests being conducted by the online video giant are doing just that. What it means for those who spend a lot of time copying & pasting embed code is that those who want to test out the latest in HTML5 video don’t have to choose between the two technologies. Now the...

Oh the irony. Apple today took the wraps off of a new HTML 5 & Web Standards page, showing off to devs and end users alike what HTML 5 and other bleeding edge web standards are capable of. Only problem — this “openness” is limited (artificially) to only Apple’s Safari browser. Now I know for a fact the latest betas of Chrome and Firefox can do at least half the stuff in the demos. But I digress. For Safari users, head on over to the HTML 5...