Posted on 08/30/2011 12:56:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new crop of apps from Amazon, LinkedIn and Box.net are the latest to take advantage of HTML5. They also signal this young language already has business' blessing.
Something in the last 18 months kicked the HTML5 adoption machine into overdrive. Maybe it was tech giants Apple and Microsoft joining hands and dubbing it the future of the web. Maybe it was Google's launch of the Chrome Web Store, with its focus on HTML5, last December. Maybe it was the HTML5-friendly iPad's meteoric sales. Whatever it was, a recent wave of consumer-facing web apps from Amazon, Box.net and LinkedIn confirm that this much-hyped language has business' blessing.
HTML5 is the latest version of the Web's bedrock markup language, HTML. But it has come to stand for much more than the average, slow-gestating technical standard. HTML5 is also shorthand for a set of features and capabilities intended to make web sites behave more like conventional desktop applications, incorporating video, complex interactions and data as well as greater compatibility with new devices like smartphones and tablets. In development since the early-2000s, HTML5 was rocketed into the mainstream in April last year when Apple (AAPL) boss Steve Jobs issued a public missive deriding Adobe's (ADBE) Flash and anointing HTML5 as the web's future. Now, companies are turning to it to cut down on costs that can soar when developing simultaneously for Apple's iOS and Google's (GOOG) Android as well as to circumvent the headaches of varying app stores.
Indeed, adoption has soared. A recent survey from video search engine MeFeedia showed that at least 69% of web video is now available for playback via HTML5. Last December, that number was 54%; in January 2010, months before the iPad became a hit, it was 10%.
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Can I download it?
I suspect the adoption of iPads with Adobe-Free FLASH may have had an impact on this movement.
Adobe doesn’t like this; but then again, there aren’t many virus’s going about on the Apple iPad/iPhone/iPod.
Here’s a quick test o see how well your browser will support HTML5. I’m running IE8 and my results are abysmal.
Bookmark
“...I’m running IE8 and my results are abysmal.”
Of course, it’s Microsoft.
Give ‘em time to copy the good code from someone else and it’ll work fine.
Adobe beginning to force everything to ActionScript 3 really opened the door to businesses to reevaluate what is best. Something they really didn’t do for all the years they were using AS2.
177 on my DROID browser.
IE10 is much better according to that website but Google Chrome is king of the hill.
No Flash for iPad pretty much hastened the adaptation of HTML5.
If you have updated Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or most every other browser - released in the past couple of years; you likely already have it. To you, HTML 5 is very likely invisible - it's how your browser intrepets and displays the web page.
HTML 5 is simply a language websites use, that is much more powerful than the predessor. Becaaue it's a STANDARD, instead of proprietry method (ahem, FLASH) - it's much more secure than previous methods of writing web material. The need for FLASH has all but gone away - meaning there are fewer exploits for hackers to pipe malware to you. This is, generally speaking, a good thing.
313 +9 bonus point on Firefox 6.0
(450 is the max score)
Just as a point of reference, my Dell laptop scored a 41 with IE8 (Can’t update - business managed).
My iPad with Safari scored 210 with 7 bonus points.
Can you say my iPad WHOOPED my Core i5 laptop?!?!
341 for both Chrome and Firefox, 240 for Opera and 141 for IE9.
I’m downloading Google Chrome right now. It was rated 341 with 13 bp’s
I’m downloading Google Chrome right now. It was rated 341 with 13 bp’s
marking....
Because Flash is a bloated POS and MS is walking away from Silverlight. Pretty simple math really.
Does anything score 450?
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