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Google has always loved HTML5, as it is about taking people to the web. Something, what its own Android would stop people from doing by using the native applications. Hence, Google is always looking at Chrome as its long term strategy, while Android has seen all the success. Anyways, we are talking about Google’s HTML5 implementations in its web apps.
Here, we are specifically talking about its weather widget in the mobile web search. If you own a mobile with an HTML5 browser (like Android, iOS, blackberry), go to Google search and type in a query like “weather new york” or “weather menlo park” and see what you get along with the search results. The weather widget coded in HTML5. As, seen in the attached screenshot, it appears like what used to be possible with Flash right. But, wait this is a screen shot of iPhone, so no flash here.
The possibilities with HTML5 are immense, only thing lacking are proper HTML5 authoring tools. But, more tools like Maqetta are coming up and soon it would be as easy to code HTML5 as it is to use Photoshop. (Well the last statement sure is subjective).
Check the weather app yourself and let us know what you think of the application.
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