You’ve probably heard about HTML5 plenty of times recently, but you may not know too much about what it can do. Apple wants to change that with its new site that showcases some of HTML5’s ...

CSS3 transitions and animations are used in a Web-based slideshow. -An HTML5 audio demo shows how JavaScript lets programmers pause, play, seek, and check the current playback position.

the site effectively replicates the company's new "Metro" user interface in HTML. The demo is a clever effort to show people what the Metro UI looks like without the need to set foot in a store.

In fact, the page is actually called “HTML5 and web standards.” Why? Undoubtedly because Adobe Flash is not a web standard. The first demo on the page shows the cool things you can do with ...

The site showcases HTML5 audio and canvas elements ... in any non-IE browser with the proper support. Mozilla’s HTML5 demo pages are geared to work with experimental builds of Firefox, but ...

In short, it's an awesome demo that showcases just how far web apps have become. It's now down to app and game developers to take tools like Emscripten, asm.js, and HTML5 and actually build a ...

Of course, what's interesting there is that the Pre's HTML-based SDK means that web apps can act like first ... but for now we'll just settle for the short demo video after the break.