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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You’ll be glad to have Chrome. I only use IE when required at work.
I finally got Firefox downloaded and it is better than Chrome (and IE). I’ve been doing comparos and web pages with a lot of graphics definitely load faster with Firefox. The only complaint I have so far is that I can’t find the refresh button. Minor.
313 and 9 bonus points on Firefox 6. OK but not great.
298 and 9 bonus points on Firefox 7 beta. Even worse.
At least I have Ogg Theora support.
Look to the right of the URL in the navigation toolbar. An arrow bent into a semicircle.
Nice test.
On Mac OS X Lion:
Firefox 6: 313 + 9
Safari 5.1: 293 + 8
Chrome 13: 341 + 13
On Windows virtuals at various stages of advancement:
IE6: 25
IE7: 26
IE8: 41
Firefox 3: 74
Safari 3.2: 44
Safari 5.1: 252 + 2
Chrome 13: 340 + 13
The moral of the story is: Stay away from IE and make sure you update your other browsers. Also, Apple doesn’t put as much effort into Safari for Windows as for Mac.
A tech column in a financial magazine. Can’t be nothing to it.
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