So let's just forget for a minute, if we can, that Apple is in blatant violation of the Geneva Convention for not supporting Flash on the iPhone and iPad, and just talk about HTML 5 on its own merits.
HTML 5 is supposedly five years away or so - heck, there's still IE 6 out there, and the standard won't ready for a couple of years. So you can only use it for mobile phones that have Webkit browsers and get at least 1 major firmware a year (make that five if it's an Android phone, except for the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 which just came out and shipped with the old Android 1.6 and won't be upgraded to 2.1 until later in Q4, and by then there's probably two new Android versions out already). That's what I thought when I read this article: http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/05/where-on-the-web-is-html5 There were a couple of interesting facts in it: - Slide sharing site Scribd recently switched from Flash to HTML 5 and claims to run on 90% of all browsers out there, including good ol' IE 6 (well, Safari 4 on Mac is apparently not in there, because the formulas here were screwed up for me: http://www.scribd.com/documents/5/Image-Cluster-Compression). Apparently, you can use Javascript and CSS styles as a partial fallback for browser that lack (specific) HTML 5 support. You can read more about the conversion here: http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/05/scribd-switches-from-flash-to-html5/ - HTML 5 borrows some elements from Docbook with its new structural tags, like <header>, <footer>, <section> and <article>. This should make posting and parsing documents easier, and I'm not sure it's in Flash (or Silverlight). - A lot of the HTML 5 elements, as they are known today, are already implemented in many browsers, which you can see on this nice HTML 5 page (that looked fine on my Mac): http://html5readiness.com/ So, does that mean HTML 5 will be ready for mainstream web projects before, say, 2015? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
