Archive of html5
Should we stop using HTML5 because of interoperability issues? Of course not!
Yesterday an official from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was quoted in an article on InfoWorld titled “W3C: Hold off on deploying HTML5 in websites” as saying: “The problem we’re facing right now is there is already a lot of excitement for HTML5, but it’s a little too early…
Read MoreWill IE9 save us from IE6?
Microsoft have released a beta of IE9, you can download it from http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/. It seems that the battle of the browsers these days has a lot to do with being the best and fastest for modern standards like HTML5. In the past, the weapons used were often proprietary extensions that…
Read MoreSencha Touch – mobile web development framework
At Caplin we have been using various UI widgets from Ext JS (available from the renamed Sencha company) within Caplin Trader for a couple of years. The Ext JS widgets that we have used have been an excellent complement to the real time financial components that we’ve written. They have…
Read MoreApple releases Safari 5 with HTML 5 WebSocket support
The iPhone 4 announcement obviously trumped this at WWDC 2010, but Apple have also released Safari 5. If you read about what’s new you will see lots of HTML5 stuff, including WebSocket. But as I wrote about last week, which version of HTML WebSocket? Is it the same as the…
Read MoreWhich version of HTML5 WebSocket?
I have blogged about Why we don’t need HTML5 WebSocket previously – and to recap, it’s not that we don’t need it, it’s not really that important until it is far more widespread and that is a very long way off. Anyway, Google have just announced that they have Updated…
Read MoreHTML5 vs Flash – The Saga Continues
Yesterday there were a couple of important posts that have reignited the fire under the HTML5 vs Flash debate. The first was Thoughts On Flash from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The second was the riposte from Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, via Alan Murray’s exclusive interview, Highlights: The Journal’s Exclusive Interview…
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