- Android stock browser: 177
- Dolphin Browser: 177
- Firefox: 303 + 98 bonus
- Opera: 35 < |:(~
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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Yikes ! Hopefully I can better from home
bump for home...
Chrome is good; I’ve nothing against Chrome at all.
My poison of choice is Firefox; primarily because it’s look and feel are closer to Internet Explorer; which I am used to.
I just hate learning curves ..... 100% personal preference.
Me, I’m shooting for HTML6!
Probably in a lab somewhere.
Judging by their names I think a lot of the things they score I have turned off for security and privacy.
Yes, I think that really sped up the adoption rate. Do you remember the huge outcry of protest when Apple announced no Flash support on the iPad? Apple was correct. Flash consumes lots of memory, will kill your battery life, and is buggy, so it might freeze the browser or pose a security risk.
Flash filled the gap for about a decade when Java apps flopped on the web. But even Adobe sees the handwriting on the wall and is now releasing tools for developing HTML5 web applications.
I’m poking around in Chrome right now. No dropdown menus. Hmm
No reason you can’t have all 3 on your PC. Play with them all, keep the one you like best. Free, they play well with each other.
I like the fact that Firefox imports my bookmarks, cookies and such from Internet Explorer; and works in a very similar way (actually better, IMHO).
Like, for example; Firefox has a spellchecker in the browser - so when I mistype something, it finds the error. Unlike IE8 that blindly lets me type like a 2nd grader.
My windows XP pc hit a 300/450 score. My brand spankin new iPad2 hit 210.
I got 210 plus 7 bonus points (out of a total of 450) on my Safari/iPad.
MSIE: 41. < |:(~
No, but I can say that Safari beat IE, thats a no brainer, Safari on your laptop would have done the same.
My Vista HP laptop running IE 9.0 scored 141 with 5 bonus points, for what this is worthy.
I also have Flash and really can’t delete it for company requirements. How do I know which one my browser is using? Can I disable Flash and enable it when needed?
No, Flash is an extension - once it’s installed, it launches when it’s required. For example, it’s used a bit for Farmville on Facebook (or was).
HTML 5 is an extension as to what HTML can do; and basically this makes FLASH all but obsolete. As the article states, the rapid adoption of HTML 5 by web developers means that about the only major market that FLASH still dominates is in the advertizements on web pages. You don’t ‘see’ those advertizements with the iPad/iPod/iPhone, as IOS doesn’t support Flash. And, that IMHO, isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Sidebar question ....
I have the origional iPad, and love it. Granted, the iPad 2 is much faster - but there is no real reason I can find to justify throwing this away and getting the iPad 2.
You have the iPad 2; is there ANY reason you can think of to ditch that, and grab the upcoming iPad 3? Even if it had Retina Display and was again 2-9x faster than what you have?
I’ve never had a produc like this - where future generations are faster; but I just can’t justify tossing what I have.
“To view the results of your browser you need to enable Javascript!”
Somehow, I don’t think I’d score that high, anyway.
I got 287 +9 bonus points using Firefox 5 on 64-bit Fedora 14. Got dinged for some things that quite frankly I wouldn’t want anyway.
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