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• 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.

• 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.

• Google's speed push more best practices than revolution

  Google's attempt at rallying developers, ISPs and others to increase the speed at which the Internet operates focuses less on rip-and-replace and more on a set of best practices that includes compression techniques, optimized JavaScript code and Web graphics, and reductions in HTML file sizes.