Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th Sep 2009 18:39 UTC
The draft of the HTML5 specification has been under discussion for a while now, but despite the fact that it's not yet finished, all major browsers have implemented at least the most important aspects of it - except Microsoft. The company did provide substantive criticism of the specification in early August, but now the company has also endorsed the video and audio tags.
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2005-07-17
Hyperbole. Web apps are very prominent, but they aren't exactly pushing aside traditional apps like MS Office to the degree that you're suggesting.
Good points.
I have a feeling that Google is going to start feeling some heat from Bing 2.0, and they will adapt. "
What your missing is that mobile Safari on iPhone has show that proprietary mobile pages are dead n gone. The killer feature was mobile safari's ability to "smart zoom" standards compliant pages and "massage" the UI to meet the needs of a mobile user.. on the fly with no actual page markup changes. Apple's "iphone web app SDK" already implements some of the easy HTML5 changes that don't break most standards compliant browsers too badly now. Best yet, all this is for "free", no proprietary page extensions or custom browsers, no flash or silverlight.. just clean tools everybody has been ranting about being underused for nearly a decade.
All those "extra" tags give mobile and handicap accessible browsers the info they need to pick out content from navigation quickly and easily without expensive, cpu intensive "AI" needed. HTML5 is the spring cleaning needed for 5-6 years on the web design front.