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HTML5: It's Already Everywhere, Even In Mobile

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-behind-you-right-now! dept.

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."

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  1. Can someone expolain what's so great about HTML? by MouseTheLuckyDog · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

  2. Re:Can someone expolain what's so great about HTML by stms · · Score: 5, Funny

    because you can make amazing websites like zombocom

  3. Re:That pretty much sums up my opinion on it as we by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It wasn't that a lot of these things couldn't be done before, it was that non-realtime media, non-interactive media, and scripted pseudo-interactive media (cgi scripts) should not all be lumped together.

    For example, the article on readwriteweb does nothing if Javashit is disabled, yet it's just a static piece of text with some images and could have been just as effectively rendered in HTML 3.0 like any other motherfuckingwebsite.com.

    Sad thing is, HTML 3.0 is more responsive than most of the shit I see today. HTML 3.0 used to just wrap words at the end of the screen or the window, no matter what the "designer" wanted. Now, when the "designer" wants a 6-inch minimum width, the text is unreadable on mobile unless you're willing to scroll back and forth for EVERY FUCKING LINE OF TEXT. And when the "designer" wants a 500-pixel maximum width,
    the website
    looks like this
    on the
    desktop.

    Fuck web design. Fuck web designers. And increasingly, fuck the web.