“HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX,” Paul Krill reports for InfoWorld.
“The World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) HTML 5 proposal is geared toward Web applications, something not adequately addressed in previous incarnations of HTML, the W3C acknowledges. In other words, HTML 5 tackles the gap that Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX are trying to fill,” Krill reports.
“HTML 5 technologies such as Canvas, for 2-D drawing on a Web page, are being promoted by heavyweights in the Internet space such as Apple, Google, and Mozilla,” Krill reports. “(Although Microsoft itself has given a thumbs-up to certain aspects of HTML 5, it has not backed Canvas.)”
“Apple supports HTML 5 audio and video tags in its Safari browser, as well as the Canvas technology (which it invented),” Krill reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Originally invented by Apple for Mac OS X Dashboard, HTML Canvas technology allows web designers to specify an area in HTML that can be dynamically stylized by a JavaScript program. Safari was the first web browser to support HTML Canvas.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
