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What To Expect From HTML5

Posted by Soulskill on from the endless-debate-about-video dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Neil McAllister takes a deeper look at HTML5, outlining what developers should expect from this overhaul of HTML — one that some believe could put an end to proprietary Web technologies such as Flash and Silverlight. Among the most eagerly anticipated additions to HTML5 are new elements and APIs that allow content authors to create rich media using nothing more than standards-based HTML. The standard also introduces browser-based application caches, which enable Web apps to store information on the client device. 'But for all of HTML5's new features, users shouldn't expect plug-ins to disappear overnight. The Web has a long history of many competing technologies and media formats, and the inertia of that legacy will be difficult to overcome. It may yet be many years before a pure-HTML5 browser will be able to match the capabilities of today's patchwork clients,' McAllister writes. 'In the end, browser market share may be the most significant hurdle for developers interested in making the most of HTML5. Until these legacy browsers are replaced with modern updates, Web developers may be stuck maintaining two versions of their sites: a rich version for HTML5-enabled users, and a version for legacy browsers that falls back on outdated rendering tricks.'"

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  1. Silverlight's greatest achievement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Getting mentioned next to Flash in all of these "End of..." articles.

  2. Re:InfoWorld SUCKS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not only that, whenever I load Infoworld's website my Windows 7 PC reports a "low memory" error!

  3. I understand the substance of your complaint by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    however I would assert that

    (please click the next comment below the parent to see more insight)

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    1. Re:I understand the substance of your complaint by Arthur+Grumbine · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm pretty sure this is a record for consecutive, uninterrupted, in-reply-to-the-same-parent, Score:5, Funny comments from the same user (ACs don't count - they never did). There should be a /. Achievement for this, something like "Comedian DoS Attack Award".

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      Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
  4. Re:Thank you Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'd hope that Apple wouldn't support "Thedora" and they would instead choose to support "Theora" ...just a Spelling Nazi entertaining himself:

  5. I understand the substance of your complaint by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    its not really that much of a problem to read

    (please click the next comment in this series for our exciting conclusion)

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  6. I understand the substance of your complaint by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    an article in tandem sections if you are a search spider or ad generator!

    (we hope you've enjoyed this exciting article, please click again, and please click a lot

    because we don't think of you as a human reader we should attempt to satisfy, and therefore convince you to visit us again

    we think of you as a monkey we have to somehow trick, annoy, and cajole into clicking a lot, for content counts, page hits, and ad revenue

    internet content is a zero sum game!)

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  7. Re:Vector animation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    MS Office?

  8. Re:Vector animation? by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I feel old now, remembering back to when VRML was the new standard that was going to sweep the web--but didn't amount to squat.

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