Category Archives: News Commentary

RT “Betting the House of HTML5″

July 26, 2010 – 9:36 am

This is a really great article that discusses, amongst other things, HTML5 in relation to the e-Book business. The foreshadowing of blanket compatibility is becoming very thick and smells of money folks! Nice article  Andrew Richard Albanese. Read the article here.

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Will HTML5 Dilute the AppStore’s Juice?

July 8, 2010 – 8:32 am

Something tells me Apple will already be moving on to the next thing by the time HTML5 browser apps begin to take a bite out of the AppStore. Apple will need to remain in a position to keep people following the carrot… er Apple. WirelessGround.com’s Full Article Here

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721% Increase in HTML5 Jobs

July 6, 2010 – 9:14 am

Does that mean that there are 721 jobs! lol According to Freelancer.com: “The Apple Effect: 26% of all web video is available using HTML5 (The Register) and this number is only going to increase as Steve Jobs famously gave Flash the cold shoulder with the release of the iPad and new iPhone. This endorsement gave [...]

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Francis & the Lights Launch the first HTML5 Embeddable Album

July 1, 2010 – 10:41 am

Pretty cool. It’s like zero code. <script src=”http://itllbebetter.com/embed.js?width=500″></script>

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Kindle get’s itself a little HTML5

July 1, 2010 – 9:04 am

Since the Kindle Reader has broken away from just the Kindle device, which was an incredibly smart move by Bezos and company, it’s not a surprise that their new “look inside the book” type feature will use HTML5 so it’s highly accessible (or at all) on the iPad. I had a client just the other [...]

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Why we need to get parental supervision in HTML5

June 29, 2010 – 9:37 am

Stephen Shankland, from CNET news reported today that the people behind the actual specification of HTML5 are experiencing some “growing pains”.  He goes on to say that they are using juvenile smack phrases and generally disagreeing with each other about some minor semantics of the specification. I hate to say it but I used to [...]

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9 ways that HTML5 will change the Web…

June 23, 2010 – 1:44 pm

Without using bullets or numbers to count each way apparently… Peter Wayner’s InfoWorld article does little to shed any new light on HTML5 unless it’s the first article you’ve ever read on it. Hey that’s just my opinion and I’m not getting paid to blog about HTML5. I’m sure it would be different if I [...]

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JavaScript Giant, Sencha Hinges HTML5 Back to Reality

June 17, 2010 – 9:27 am

I think it’s fair to say that, after all the recent hype from Apple and Google about HTML5, somebody needs to make a move to keep this open-source/cross-browser HTML5 specification honest. JavaScript powerhouse Sencha, formerly Ext JS, is unveiling “a programming framework for building rich, web and touch-based applications and that draws on the HTML5 [...]

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Marketing HTML5 and What Really “is” HTML5

June 12, 2010 – 9:01 pm

This guy, Right there (floating left), Stephen Shankland,  wrote a nice little piece about how the giants are running away with the real idea of HTML5. I agree, None of the other versions of HTML (eh maybe XHTML) were exploited in the way that this has been. The thing that’s erking me is that it [...]

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OK. I’m getting tired of the word “Embracing”

June 11, 2010 – 3:38 pm

Any article these days that has HTML5, and Apple in it, also contains the word “Embracing”. Like we’re just going to hug and feed this little cold HTML5 monkey until it can walk and broadcast video on its own… Proof click here

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