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Adobe is a company known for its standards: PDF, SWF and PSD, all can be related to one company. Adobe has said in the past that HTML5 could hamper its company’s position, especially its Flash platform, which is an unofficial standard for web video today. The adamant position of Apple to not allow Flash on its [...]
The man in blue released an animation benchmarking for comparing the performance of HTML5 and Flash. The outcome of various tests reveal that Flash outperforms the current implementations of HTML5. The test covered Flash 10, Canvas, HTML and SVG rendering on Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer running on Windows XP and OS X. While [...]
I came across this experimental site which adds subtitles to videos using twitter messages on a specific topic within a timeline. Basically, live broadcasts are linked to twitter messages. Source: http://rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/ititle/ A roundup of other HTML5 experiments Yet another experimental site which demonstrates the current capabilities in HTML5 as the draft progresses is available here: [...]
You have sunspider and the likes for Javascript compliance. You HTML, XHTML and CSS3 compliance tests. Now, we have one for HTML5. HTML5 test is available at, guess what, HTML5test.com. The project is being developed at GitHub by Niels Leenheer. The test is purely indicative as it still does not test the full HTML5 support. [...]
Apple has some how developed a hating for Flash and keeps mocking it at every possible instance. When Apple introduced iAds with iPhone OS 4, Steve Jobs was quick to assert that interactive ads were created using HTML5. To quote Jobs: So all this is done in HTML5 by the way … Supporters of Flash [...]
A new release 6.8 of Netbeans is upcoming and there is yet no support for HTML5 tags. But, the promise is on for version 6.9, on a low priority though, but definitely in version 7. Now, as HTML5 is still in a draft stage, people are not rushing to add support for it, however, it [...]
Watch out this video which talk about how communication barriers will be broken with HTML5.
