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alt="" height="102" width="84"></a>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 <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/cloudreader">Kindle
Cloud Reader</a> 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.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_trends_of_2011_html5.php">Top
trends of 2011: HTML5</a>
(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."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazon-sidesteps-apple-html5-kindle-cloud-reader">Amazon
sidesteps Apple with HTML5 `Kindle Cloud
Reader'</a> (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."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/amazons-cloud-reader/">Amazon's
Cloud Reader still doesn't take the Web
seriously</a> (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 <a
href="http://ibisreader.com/about/">Ibis
Reader</a>."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2389500,00.asp">Adobe
`Edge' tool could replace Flash with HTML5</a>
(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."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Timeline
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">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 <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2011/02/htmlwg-pr.html">currently
2014</a>.
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