Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of September 23, 2012

Here are the comments, opinions and actions taken by both supporters and opponents of HTML5 that I have found this week.  It is never a dull discussion.

Native apps tend to have a smoother look and feel, more
polish, and are able to leverage elements of their native operating system to
feel more deeply integrated into the device. 
However, building for multiple platforms and devices is expensive while
web apps, built in standards-based technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3, will
work on devices across a range of sizes by being adaptive and responsive.  Read Original Content

Brendan Eich, the chief technology officer at Mozilla,
admits that HTML5 still faces standardization issues, and by continuing to lead
development of essential HTML5 standards, Mozilla will actually make
developers’ lives easier.  Read Original Content

The much-publicized quote from Mark Zuckerberg, stating that
the biggest mistake Facebook made was betting too much on HTML5 doesn’t tell
the entire story.  The full quote, on
Facebook software engineer Tobie Langel’s blog is:  “When I’m introspective about the last few
years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too
much on HTML5 as opposed to native… because it just wasn’t there. And it’s not
that HTML5 is bad. I’m actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of
the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis
using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined.
So mobile Web is a big thing for us.” 
Read Original Content

While stating that the company believes HTML5 has been “very
over-hyped”, Intel software executive Renee James goes on to say that Intel is
“committed to making sure HTML5 remains open, cross-platform, and has the right
performance”.  Read Original Content

Adobe has made an effort to have its tools work on multiple
platforms – PCs, tablets, and smartphones – using HTML5 and dynamic layout
reformatting tailored to each device type. 
The company is now promoting free “Create the Web” events to show off
new tools and services for HTML5, CSS3, motion graphics, web development and
more.  Read Original Content

appMobi has announced the launch privateStack, an
HTML5-based, app development and cloud services platform that will enable
businesses to develop their own cloud stack for mobile apps for business
operations.  Read Original Content

Donald MacCormick in BI Dashboards provides a video of an
HTML5 dashboard prototype in action. 
Read Original Content

Facebook software engineer Tobie Langel outlines the HTML5
flaws that Facebook encountered including a lack of tooling in mobile browsers,
scrolling performance problems, and technical problems such as stuttering and
GPU buffer exhaustion.  Read OriginalContent

Xamarin CEO Nat Freidman believes the mobile industry is
moving too fast for HTML5 and Web standards-based development to keep up, and
he feels a lot more developers will start to build natively.  An IDC analyst states “We are now in a bit of
a disillusionment phase for HTML5 as early adopters push the boundaries of the
capabilities and sometimes fail”.  ReadOriginal Content

This article from HTML5 Goodies explores the changes with
HTML5 Semantics – HTML5 tags that have been removed and new HTML5
elements.  Read Original Content

Jadu will offer its mobile app publishing platform
Weejot.com free to every school, college and university in the U.K. to enable
students to improve their programming skills using HTML5 and JavaScript.  Read Original Content

Serdar Yegulalp writes in Information Week’s Byte newsletter
that although he “can’t stand” programming in HTML5, he sees it thriving in the
long run, because it’s the most widely-recognized starting point. HTML5
“doesn’t give the most powerful base to build on, but it provides the lowest
barrier to entry, and one of the fastest ways to get something into people’s
hands”.  Read Original Content

A collection of 10 useful infographics about HTML5 is
provided in this article by Jacob Gube in Six Revisions.  Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict,
Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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