Finally on a technology note, HTML 5 will struggle to live up to its hype.
As html 5 becomes more prevalent perhaps the apps model of content delivery will wane.
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One big change brought in with HTML 5 lets websites store more data locally on visitors' PCs.
Some users have asked why the BBC doesn't use an HTML 5 video player instead of Adobe Flash.
The secret is in the use of the open HTML 5 standard that can be used by any browser.
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The loophole exploits a feature of HTML 5 which defines how websites are made and what they can do.
There are indeed advantages there: the use of HTML 5 might well make the writing of apps much easier.
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Pangalore built Knightly Adventure using the Unity engine and HTML 5, meaning it can be played across multiple devices.
Currently, their topics of conversation focus on expanding mobile capabilities, personalization, implementing HTML 5, and the controversial, new profile redesign.
This new approach to programming doesn't yet have a handy name like Ajax, though some refer to it as HTML 5.
Web sites that want to stream video should use a relatively new technology called HTML 5, which allows video without the need for Flash.
Shadow is yet another tool by Adobe which focuses on HTML 5 development as Flash becomes increasingly irrelevant in a post-PC world.
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While it continues to invest in the Flash platform, it is also working on tools for HTML 5 development, like Adobe Edge.
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We are pleased to announce that we are currently working on an HTML 5 player for Apple devices, such as iPhones and iPads.
If the original HTML specifications were designed for navigating hierarchies of documents, HTML 5 was designed to enable web pages to be more like applications.
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But Samsung start with a distinct advantage, with a strategy that is looking ahead to HTML 5 and TV, as much as it is to mobile.
However, this does require a great deal of technical development work to our current systems and there are technical challenges around the ability to secure video streams in HTML 5.
The second thing to note is that the rise of HTML 5 has gotten much less press than the rise of iOS. Reporters love to cover the clash of corporate titans.
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In addition to a series of prime-time ads (maybe you've seen 'em), the company has been using certain HTML 5 apps to show devs what they can do using IE 10's deep multitouch support.
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Yesterday I noticed this story about a web startup called SlideShare ditching Flash (a proprietary plugin provided by Adobe) in favor of HTML 5 (a set of open web standards that have recently been adopted by the major browsers).
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And what they found is that such programmers, knowledgeable in technologies from Python to Flex to Ruby to Flash to Hadoop to HTML 5, were hired faster and had higher starting salaries in the third quarter of 2012 than the year before.
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The web standards movement, led by Jeffrey Zeldman and others (great interview with Zeldman here, on The Great Discontent), paved the way for the large chunk of app development that can now be done in HTML 5, CSS3 and JavaScript and work on all platforms.
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Developed using widely adopted European open standards for hybrid TV including elements of OIPF, HbbTV and HTML 5 browser technology, will offer additional services and features in the future, including a companion app for smartphones and tablets to create remote control and remote record capability away from the traditional remote.
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Samsung meanwhile is supporting the development of the Tizen OS for mobile phones, an HTML 5 based open source project that will shift the balance of power in mobility away from the device app store to the networks, a move that looks set to be the next disruption in smartphones.
For Twitter to be able to keep the navigational container of its mobile apps native and fast, but to have instantly updatable HTML 5 modules and JavaScript libraries embedded within, is a great model for a platform that can test and deploy these elements with a minimal disruption to users.
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Although most of the people who wrote about this immediately focused on the ability to quickly test features of mobile apps, I thought, perhaps, that the Framework, with its hybrid approach that combines the performance and functionality benefits of native apps with the high-speed developement of HTML 5, might be the key.
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But the current Adobe management is already doing a lot of stuff which Google would do, so perhaps in it best to let them carry that out and then reconsider it as a takeover in a couple of year times, once the transition to the HTML 5 is more complete and we know how Adobe fits into that world.
Access to YouTube will soon be possible from the Freesat platform - the first time the service will be available from a free to air provider in the UK. The version of YouTube that will be launched is built on HTML 5 and will be its very latest iteration offering a TV-optimised, visually stunning and fully interactive viewing experience.
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Given its support for HTML-5 and hybrid apps, a non-IBM customer can use these tools.
Like the early days of web applications, a thin (HTML-5 mobile web) versus thick (native device apps) argument has ensued.
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