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We talked about Pusher for making collaboration possible in webapps, now we talk about another framework called SproutCore. SproutCore is an HTML5 application framework for building responsive, desktop-caliber apps in any modern web browser, without plugins. In order to remove latency from WebApps (in transferring from client to server and vice versa) and give them [...]
Pusher is an application to provide real time client push in an easy to implement manner using HTML5 websockets. Currently in private beta, the project provides functionalities such as realtime collaboration, live status updates and messages and event broadcast to everyone viewing a page. Clients connect to a channel using an API key and thereafter [...]
Microsoft got on board very late to the HTML5 party. One of the reasons was it did not need a new standard (HTML5) for web, when its browser Internet explorer was a standard in itself. That was when IE occupied a comfortable position in the web browser share. Also, Microsoft wouldn’t want the browsers to [...]
On an update on 27th January 2010, Youtube did start supporting fullscreen mode in HTML5 videos. However, the said functionality does not work with, guess what, Google Chrome. This is what is specifically mentioned on Youtube: 1/27/2010: Fullscreen support enabled (if supported by browser) So, which browser is supported. Here’s a possible answer. Looks like [...]
The question is answered here. HTML5 is a new standard, which is still evolving, of, yes, HTML. HTML, if you didn’t know, stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. What began purely as data + formatting was soon added with logic (javascript) and embedded objects (flash, applets, etc.) The advent of AJAX took webpages to all [...]
