The fifth version of HTML gained much notoriety during 2011 by transforming the application development paradigm. HTML5 took the world by storm with the premise of being multi-platform, and giants like Microsoft, Google or Apple have its back.
Mobile devices are here to stay, every day more and more people buy them, and demand more and better apps and functionalities, hopping to be the next to come out with the next big, thing each manufacturer has created its own technological mushroom, this caused serious problems to content developers, because an app developed to run on iPhone doesn’t run on Android or Windows Phone and vice versa, but in the course of 2011 some big players changed their minds and now the path seems brighter, Apple banned Flash from their mobile devices and states that HTML5 is the future(1), Microsoft is revolutionizing its core, no more Win32 API, from now on its WinRT (Windows RunTime(2)) API and it has HTML5 and JavaScript in mind, another big step towards HTML5 was Microsoft dropping out of SilverLight, this is clearly a bet to try and catch the mobile train and it shows with Windows Mobile 7 and Metro style apps, Adobe as also recently stated that its dropping the ball on Flash(3).
HTML5 promises standardization and flexibility, it’s this ability to run on several platforms that is going to boost the standard.
Several companies are already making available some amazing content developed in HTML5, like Rovio who released AngryBirds for Chrome, or SuperGiants who released Bastion also available on Chrome Store.
1. http://www.apple.com/html5/
2. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh464942.aspx
3. http://news.yahoo.com/adobe-drops-flash-mobile-devices-193154292.html
Mobile devices are here to stay, every day more and more people buy them, and demand more and better apps and functionalities, hopping to be the next to come out with the next big, thing each manufacturer has created its own technological mushroom, this caused serious problems to content developers, because an app developed to run on iPhone doesn’t run on Android or Windows Phone and vice versa, but in the course of 2011 some big players changed their minds and now the path seems brighter, Apple banned Flash from their mobile devices and states that HTML5 is the future(1), Microsoft is revolutionizing its core, no more Win32 API, from now on its WinRT (Windows RunTime(2)) API and it has HTML5 and JavaScript in mind, another big step towards HTML5 was Microsoft dropping out of SilverLight, this is clearly a bet to try and catch the mobile train and it shows with Windows Mobile 7 and Metro style apps, Adobe as also recently stated that its dropping the ball on Flash(3).
HTML5 promises standardization and flexibility, it’s this ability to run on several platforms that is going to boost the standard.
Several companies are already making available some amazing content developed in HTML5, like Rovio who released AngryBirds for Chrome, or SuperGiants who released Bastion also available on Chrome Store.
1. http://www.apple.com/html5/
2. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh464942.aspx
3. http://news.yahoo.com/adobe-drops-flash-mobile-devices-193154292.html
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