Previous news: 8 June 2010

HTML5! HTML5! HTML5!
It's all the rage hype at the moment. Browsers are starting to support some aspects of the still being developed HTML5 specs and CSS3 (which gets lumped in under the same banner).

When HTML5 is referenced on the Intraweb what people really mean is {HTML5, CSS3 (Curvy corners!) and fast running JavaScript} - but then AJAX also came to be the term used for any type of dynamic interaction on a webpage. Which is turn again used to be called DHTML, in the days when that term still had hype...

It's easy to be smug about all the HTML5 hype doing the rounds now. But if you study the graph I've stolen from Google Images you can see in reality we're nearing the Peak of inflated expectations with HTML5 (+ CSS3, JavaScript etc...). There's some great demo of what you can achieve out there, like perhaps a NES emulator that runs using the Canvas tag and JavaScript.

HTML is already everywhere, on your phone, router and coming soon to your TV. Flash has rode this wave, but the next step is HTML5 and I doubt Flash will survive.

Technologies, ideas or anything are only used until something better comes along. It's all just stepping stones along the way to where ever we're going as a species.

Mav