HTML5 is very nice! It is still not 100% but everything fails pretty gracefully. The most annoying thing is the mentioned file format support with audio/video but the tags have the ability to contain multiple sources; so basically you're wasting drive space since you have to have two video files per tag. You can also include a Flash player to fall back on within these tags to cater to old browsers.
Websockets are gonna pretty much revolutionize web services and, as far as I know, all browsers currently support them. Having an SQL DB to replace cookies is also pretty big. Haven't messed with this much yet but plan to in the coming weeks. <canvas> is cool for JavaScript animations and of course we have SVG too! Overall I really like the spec and support is getting better daily. --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "Roger F. Gay" <rogerfgay@...> wrote: > > I've beefed a bit lately about the battle for cross-browser applications. In > theory, the browser is the perfect answer, I've argued, to a lot of web > development work, but it's been difficult (thanks in part at least to > Microsoft). So, how's the HTML5 world shaping up. Too early to tell if many > browser implementations are irregular (back to square one?), so let's assume > they'll all eventually support the standard properly so that one direct > standard web page is always going to work in every browser (that you'd care > about).� > > Generally speaking, how do you like HTML5 so far? Is it as great as I imagine > it to be? Does it look like it can help make development of real browser > applications easier (practical)? > > Personally, I've been putting so much time into my server work lately that I > haven't really gotten into HTML5, even though it's been my great hope for the > future for a while. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: svg-developers-dig...@yahoogroups.com svg-developers-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
