The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the work-in-progress HTML5 today, stating that a year and a half following Steve Jobs endorsement of it, “…HTML5 is rapidly taking over the Web.”
HTML5, theoretically, should let users of mobile devices, for example, access a Website's audio, video, motion, and 3-D capabilities and play Web-resident games without needing plug-ins. For developers, HTML5 could let them develop their apps once for multiple platforms (iOS and Android, for instance)—including engineering apps like the ones EE-Evaluation Engineering will be covering in January and throughout 2012.
The Journal quotes Silicon Valley investor Roger McNamee as saying, “HTML5 is going to put power back in the hands of creative people.”
In a sign that HTML5 is truly catching on, the WSJ notes that Adobe announced this week that it will not pursue new versions of its Flash program, criticized by Jobs in his “Thoughts on Flash” essay, for mobile browsers.
The Journal says that 34% of the 100 most popular Websites used HTML5 in Q3.
Interestingly, the HTML5 endorsed by Jobs could pose a challenge to Apple's app store, but the Journal article concludes by quoting Zynga CTO Cadir Lee as predicting that companies will continue tailoring apps for Apple and other popular platforms for some time.
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