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How HTML5 Will Change the Web

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the heard-this-before dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner looks beyond the codec and plug-in wars to examine nine areas where HTML5 will have a significant impact on Web development. From enabling more interactive graphics, to tapping local file storage, to geolocation, HTML5 is rife with rich capabilities — and may even improve our ability to secure applications delivered via the Web, Wayner writes. But the most important impact of HTML5 will be its ability to simplify Web development itself: 'HTML5 offers one language (JavaScript), one data model (XML and DOM), and one set of layout rules (CSS) to bind text, audio, video, and graphics. The challenge of making something beautiful is still immense, but it's simpler to work with a unified standard.'"

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  1. Of course by ch-chuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    It will be adopted by progressive advertisers to achieve even greater degrees of annoyance per page

    I've seen the future and it's having a 50% off sale for the first 100 customers to click now!!

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  2. Where have I heard this before? by shikaisi · · Score: 4, Funny

    One language (JavaScript) to rule them all, one data model (XML and DOM) to find them, one set of layout rules (CSS) to bring text, audio, video, and graphics and in the darkness bind them.

    Why do I have a bad feeling about this?

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    1. Re:Where have I heard this before? by Anomalyst · · Score: 2, Funny

      ... in the darkness bind them.
      Why do I have a bad feeling about this?

      Is it kosher to mix LoTR and Star Wars metaphors?

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  3. Re:As always... by noidentity · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is why I read the comments before the article.

    You must be new here. Nobody reads the article.

  4. Re:As always... by ThePhilips · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... except the Anonymous Coward guy.

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  5. Re:As always... by mcvos · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder how he finds the time to read all that.

  6. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by theCoder · · Score: 2, Funny

    /sys/ of course!

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  7. Re:As always... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I just divide my day in 240 hours. That way I can read 10 times as much...

  8. Re:He doesn't mention fonts by bunnyman · · Score: 2, Funny

    The text at that site is unreadable. Good job.