[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4Cast #244: HTML5

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OPLIN 4Cast #244: HTML5
August 24th, 2011

<http://www.oplin.org/4cast/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/HTML5-logo1.png>We usually 
try not to get too geeky on this blog, but sometimes it seems like we 
have no choice. The recent stories about the Kindle Cloud Reader 
<http://www.amazon.com/cloudreader> indicate that perhaps the time has 
come to talk about the facts of HTML5. Most people know what HTML is - 
the venerable HyperText Markup Language that has long been the 
fundamental building block of web pages - but we generally don't pay a 
lot of attention to HTML versions. We should pay attention to the new 
HTML5, however, since it will make it possible to do some interesting, 
interactive things with websites. If you're thinking about creating a 
smartphone app for your library, for instance, read on.

    * Top trends of 2011: HTML5
      <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_trends_of_2011_html5.php> (ReadWriteWeb/Richard
      MacManus) "One of the most interesting debates around HTML5 is how
      it enables companies to create a single, browser-based version of
      a web service. The `write once, run anywhere' dream of developers.
      In other words, developers don't need to create separate apps for
      iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and all manner of other
      smartphone (and tablet) platforms. Instead, they simply write one
      mobile browser site."
    * Amazon sidesteps Apple with HTML5 `Kindle Cloud Reader'
      <http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazon-sidesteps-apple-html5-kindle-cloud-reader>
      (GeekWire/Todd Bishop) "Kindle Cloud Reader takes advantage of the
      expanding capabilities of web browsers - using HTML5, the latest
      generation of the underlying language of the web - to make the
      experience more like an app downloaded and installed from a mobile
      marketplace."
    * Amazon's Cloud Reader still doesn't take the Web seriously
      <http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/amazons-cloud-reader/>
      (Wired/Tim Carmody) "You can't read EPUB3, the emerging - but
      still incomplete - e-book standard that is HTML5 but isn't used by
      the Kindle. Or Nook. Or iBooks. Even for the enhanced books that
      sometimes use HTML5 audio and video. In fact, just about the only
      people experimenting with EPUB3 are HTML5- and cloud-based
      e-reading companies like ThreePress, who have an HTML5 webapp with
      local storage very similar to Amazon's Cloud Reader called Ibis
      Reader <http://ibisreader.com/about/>."
    * Adobe `Edge' tool could replace Flash with HTML5
      <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2389500,00.asp>
      (PCMag/Michael Muchmore) "The work on Edge, which is available for
      developers to download from the company's Adobe Labs site, is
      something of an acknowledgement by the premier design software
      house that the Web is moving away from Flash. It is instead
      focusing on open-standard HTML5 and its many sub-standards, which
      are capable of creating the same effects in a non-proprietary
      manner via compliant Web browsers, without a plug-in."

*/Timeline fact:/*

Even though it is already widely used, HTML5 is technically not 
"finished" yet and exists as a draft web standard. The target date for 
official recommendation as a web standard is currently 2014 
<http://www.w3.org/2011/02/htmlwg-pr.html>.
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