May 27, 2009 11:47 AM

Google Throws Its Weight Behind HTML 5

SAN FRANCISCO, California — This morning was HTML 5’s big coming-out party. At Google I/O, the company’s developer conference taking place at the Moscone Center here this week, Google Vice President of engineering Vic Gundotra centered the majority of his keynote presentation around what the company is doing to promote the next version of HTML, […]

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