Posts Tagged ‘HTML5’

Microsoft is now offering the fourth platform preview of IE10 for download and continues to build the browser into an enabling platform to run applications as opposed to simply displaying web pages.

Adobe today confirmed that it will be removing life support from its barely breathing mobile Flash platform. Effectively, Adobe kills all remaining hopes of some service providers that Flash will be surviving and supporting existing applications for a few more years. Mobile browsers are changing and will have to change at an even faster pace along with this decision, which will alter the appearance and usage of web apps within a few years.

It almost sounds as if Microsoft is joining Apple in its effort to strangle Flash: Microsoft says that HTML5 is powerful enough to enable a browser future without plug-ins.

Mozilla has an idea how it can bridge the gap between native apps and web applications: WebAPI will be developed as a set of HTML5 APIs and deliver consistent, web-based application interfaces that can be accessed by any HTML5-capable device, specifically smartphones.

A little over a year ago we ran an article on Pirates Love Daisies, an HTML5 game promoted by Microsoft, as the best HTML5 game at the time. It is time to follow up as we have seen an impressive HTML5 game published by Opera’s Erik Moeller, who translated 100,000 lines of C++ code to run his game Emberwind in the browser window.

Our first review of HTML5 feature performance in Chrome, Firefox and IE.

The collection of technologies that will redefine much of the Internet as we perceive it today is going into a public review phase that invites comments and hopes for feedback on outstanding issues to enable a standardization by 2014.

The Gameboy Color may never have been better: You can now play Gameboy games in your web browser and on some smartphones. You can run Linux as well.

Not that it matters: There isn’t any HTML5 content on the Internet that is important enough to impact your life. But what if there was such content and your future depended on it? Which browser would you choose? Let’s forget the HTML5 bragging that is advertised by browser makers and look at some specification support data and benchmarks.

There is a hidden new feature in Chrome 11: Speech input that is integrated in web pages in a similar way as you would use your Android phone. It’s not perfect yet, but the recognition rate of spoken words is impressive. Is Google planning a release of Chrome for Android?

When was the last time you updated your graphics driver? If you don’t know the answer right away, there is a good chance that you aren’t keeping pace with technology and you will have to adjust your user behavior to keep your browser running smoothly and get the most out of your computer in future web applications. Intel will also have to adapt a much more competitive graphics driver strategy.

Adobe is now offering a preview version of Wallaby, a Flash-To-HTML5 Conversion software. The software is compatible with Webkit browsers such as Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari.