HTML needn't be the end for innovative web software, but it surely could be a long overdue end to those damned plug-ins! The reason those plug-in required software products deserve to die a terrible death is that those programs have hampered commerce and made most customers' web experience, miserable!. If you were running a traditional store, you would not stop customers at the door and insist that they don a monkey suit in order to shop. This is somewhat like what those plug-in software companies did. What macromedia and their ilk were saying was, "Either wear the monkey suit, or take your business somewhere else." recent research has shown that eighty-eight percent of web users refuse to pause to download plug-ins; they simply take their business elsewhere. The fact that most of the world is still using low-bandwidth connections (estimated at eighty percent of users) adds to the problems created by demands for downloading plug-ins before gaining access to commercial sites.
With HTML5, business should experience a significant increase in online traffic and sales. If HTML5 lives up to expectations, this one change could be the key factor in some business segments starting on the road to economic recovery. Let's hope the HTML5 implementation happens quickly.
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HTML needn't be the end for innovative web software, but it surely could be a long overdue end to those damned plug-ins! The reason those plug-in required software products deserve to die a terrible death is that those programs have hampered commerce and made most customers' web experience, miserable!. If you were running a traditional store, you would not stop customers at the door and insist that they don a monkey suit in order to shop. This is somewhat like what those plug-in software companies did. What macromedia and their ilk were saying was, "Either wear the monkey suit, or take your business somewhere else." recent research has shown that eighty-eight percent of web users refuse to pause to download plug-ins; they simply take their business elsewhere. The fact that most of the world is still using low-bandwidth connections (estimated at eighty percent of users) adds to the problems created by demands for downloading plug-ins before gaining access to commercial sites. With HTML5, business should experience a significant increase in online traffic and sales. If HTML5 lives up to expectations, this one change could be the key factor in some business segments starting on the road to economic recovery. Let's hope the HTML5 implementation happens quickly.