HTML5: It's Already Everywhere, Even In Mobile

electronic convict writes: Tom Dale has never been shy, and in a Q&A with Matt Asay on ReadWrite, the EmberJS co-founder and JavaScript evangelist makes the outspoken claim that open Web technologies are already everywhere, even in native mobile apps, and that it's only a matter of time before they catch up to "all the capabilities of a native, proprietary platform." Take that, Web-is-dead doomsayers.

Dale has plenty more to say, calling Google an "adolescent behemoth" that's belatedly embracing open-Web technologies in mobile, lauding Apple's Nitro JS engine and belittling the idea that Web apps have to look and feel the same as native apps for the open Web to triumph. His bottom line: "[I]t's not hard to see that the future of the Web on mobile is a happy one."

Comments

Can someone expolain what's so great about HTML?

[MouseTheLuckyDog]

My understanding is that it is still just HTML, but the way some people describe it, it sounds like the second coming of C.

Re:Can someone expolain what's so great about HTML

[ShieldW0lf]

It's less secure than its predecessors, allowing you to do more with it than you could before.

That sounds like a troll, but it's not. A lot of what's billed as innovation in this sphere was thought of by many people before, but the platform was intentionally designed to make it impossible for security reasons.