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Is HTML5 a Game Changer?

Here are the salient features of HTML5 arranged in the order of importance

To answer this question we first need to look at what way it is different from HTML4. Here are the salient features of HTML5 arranged in the order of importance (my opinion).

  • Offline working: Like Google Gears it allows mechanism for ensuring Web applications are available even when the user is not connected to their network.
  • Local storage: It provides for client-side SQL database to store structured data.
  • 2 way communication with server: For implementing games, chatting and remote control, web sockets API are available.
  • Rich Text Editor: It is like supporting a mini word processor with spell check and grammar check extension.
  • Drag and Drop: Has full support for drag and drop with access to computer’s native drag system and clipboard.
  • Cross-document messaging: It attempts to provide a secure method of exchanging messages pages of different domains.
  • Support for 2D drawing: There will be tags available for 2D vector graphics.
  • No media plug-in required: New audio and video elements will enable developers to embed and control multimedia content and Flash, Silverlight or JavaFX will not needed.

Here is a link to the draft standard.

What HTML5 proposes to do is to remove most of the programming limitations from the browser and allow any browser based application to be almost as powerful as any native client application. It would also allow us to take advantage on increasing processing power of the client machine and build richer applications – Moore’s Law, Performance and RIA.

One of the important facts we have to keep in mind is that though it will remain “work in progress” probably till 2022, all the major browsers have already started implementing specific features. Therefore, the impact will be felt over a period of time but we can say with reasonable confidence that …

  • …the importance of O/S on the client machine will go down
  • …it will be technically feasible to create an office suite of application which runs in a browser and is as powerful as a native office suite
  • …there will be less incentive to build native mobile applications (Mobile App or Mobile Web)
  • …it will be a fillip for the cloud provider (Cloud Strategy)
  • …most of the RIA plug-ins will become redundant

And the gainers and the losers are:

  • Adobe —-
  • Microsoft –
  • Apple +-
  • IBM +
  • Oracle +
  • Amazon ++
  • Google ++++

Here are some more useful links to HTML5 related sites:

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Udayan Banerjee is CTO at NIIT Technologies Ltd, an IT industry veteran with more than 30 years' experience. He blogs at http://setandbma.wordpress.com.
The blog focuses on emerging technologies like cloud computing, mobile computing, social media aka web 2.0 etc. It also contains stuff about agile methodology and trends in architecture. It is a world view seen through the lens of a software service provider based out of Bangalore and serving clients across the world. The focus is mostly on...

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