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The Definitive Guide To HTML5: 14 Predictions For 2012 | TechCrunch
@WebsPlanet
For all of you HTML lovers - heres an overview of what's coming from Tech Crunch.
@Alvaro Osvaldo López-García
There is a big problem... data caps
@Marc Luetten
Is device function integration such as the camera available for html5 web apps yet?
@Hugh Isaacs II
Firefox 9 and the Android 4.0 browser provide some camera support. Full camera support should be shipped in browsers sometime 2012 (many are already working hard at this).
@Zsolt Vasvari
"Everyone loves Apple’s iOS". Not me, and I guess millions of others neither, but thanks for generalizing.
@Daniel Sun Yang
don't be so touchy lol. While I have my qualms with IOS, i applaud it for its marketable powers.
@Zsolt Vasvari
Daniel Sun Yang That's fine, but I certainly would want my web browser to be a static grid of icons, like this article implies that browser UIs will look like.
@Matt Labour
Daniel Sun Yang that's the exact problem. It creates biased fanboys.
@Alice Bradshaw
Why some developers still like Apple's closed-garden practices, encouraging user ignorance and blind consumerism is beyond me. The massive profit margins on consumer products, the huge toll of developers, the fact that all company operations are in China... no person capable of writing a "hello world" XHTML document should buy, support or develop for Apple
@Tj Ficklepeople
Never a fan of Apple but I can't deny the iOS is one of the most user friendly OS out there that even senior citizens can pick it up real fast.
@William Beard
I think he's just referring to jQuery mobile
@Daniel Kay
yeah had my laughs too: "Everyone loves Apple’s iOS".
@John Martins
Zsolt Vasvari Sounds like you just enjoy bitching. God damn you're cool.
@Ryan Takahashi
William Beard I hope not. I hate using jquery mobile. The W3C needs to come up with better mobile standards.
@George Hale
Alice Bradshaw As a developer myself I can vouch for their terrible practices and policies. Imagine being a guy who spent days and days cracking out an idea for an application, putting it into place over months, then Apple chooses that instead of working a deal with me, or competing legitimately, they'll make a clone of your application and sell it themselves. Because of Apple's market it will of course dominate, and you were crushed then by non-ethical practices and a marketing team creating zombies that are super-brand loyal for no logical reason.
@Sean Voss
Microsoft's "Latest" Browser is going to not only work, but be 10x faster. There's where you lost me. What make this time different from the glory that was supposed to be IE7, 8, and now 9?
@Jeff Kibuule
Because their basing most if their Windows 8 development platform in HTML5? All of the Metro apps Microsoft has written so far have been in HTML5, so they have some incentive for it not to suck.
@Flavius Saracut
Jeff Kibuule And coupled with their move to automatically update browsers for all users, Microsoft will have a word to say in 2012 in regards to HTML5.
@Bryson Connolly
Sigh, I believe the differences were explicitly outlined. (hardware acceleration, etc). What software company doesn't hype their product? IE7 was crap, but IE8 and IE9 and dramatically better in all categories.
@Alex Clapcott
All looks and sounds exciting & interesting... I think tech needs Microsoft to continue to engage at a serious level - keeps the playing field competitive and that's got to be good for everyone.
@Seth Eheart
The piece lost all credibility after "Everyone loves Apple’s iOS". Check the recent mobile growth charts? 80% of the his article is bullspit and the other 20% is duh.
@Mike Duganets
You forgot to mention: "Apple has invented new type of games: deaf-games."
@Grant Goodale
Mobile Safari in iOS5 and Android's browser in Honeycomb and ICS all support hardware accelerated canvas already, as do Firefox, Chrome and Safari on the desktop. No need to wait until 2013!
@Harry Tormey
sure, but the problem re Android is that Honeycomb represents about 3-6% of the market and it will take ICS more than a year to get a decent share of the market (re 25%+). Developing hardware accelerated apps for iOS will not have these problems.
@Varun Khurana
"Internet Explorer & Microsoft will dramatically improve in coolness." I really doubt it..
@David Smith
Well it's not a high bar for them to jump over. A dramatic improvement will just be developers not hating it so my guess is the author is correct. Anyway, when IE supports openGL is the day they really compete again.
@Ryan Takahashi
David Smith I'd be happy if they could at least get everyone to IE9. With none of these opt-out forced upgrade options.
@David Smith
to be precise on IE, I should say when Microsoft supports webGL which is based on openGL -ES but you know what I mean, and that lack of webGL/openGLwill hurt them on phones too, big time. That's really their last big arrogant stint, clinging to Direct-X only for most 3D, other than that IE 10 is pretty damn compliant to be fair, and if you program on the web you know that's actually true. Yes we all still have IE6 nightmares though and our lives are permanently damaged by it ;)
@Varun Khurana
Can't agree more about IE6 nightmares.. :)
@Bryson Connolly
Biased and unsubstantiated "opinion". Windows 7/8 and IE 9/10 are extremely dramatic improvements. Anyone that knows technology and software should respect all the major companies, as they all contribute to the overall advance.
@Vincent Amari
Ryan Takahashi Not until there is a version of IE9 for Windows XP, most people still use this version of Windows.
@Ryan Takahashi
Vincent Amari More people run win7 over winXP since august.
@Ade Molajo
A positive opinion on IE... doesn't this fly in the face of the "tech-literate" commandments. Thou must hate MS and all its products.
@Matt Labour
fuck the over-generalisation here @ TC. I hate the Apple fanboys writing articles here.
@Shaikh Naseer
HTML5 is the future....
@Yash Kumar
"Apple will NOT fix HTML5 sound in mobile Safari". Disagree totally. There are so many high-quality native music player apps in the App Store.. why would apple try to sabotage HTML5 audio just to go after web music players that can already suffer from a poorer user experience? IMO, Apple restrictions on HTML5 audio/video are explainable from a power/mobile usage perspective.. not some evil plot to kill other competitors.
@Harry Tormey
@yash kumar I totally agree. The article also does not mention the severe problems with html5 audio and Android, which will not magically get fixed in 2012. This article really is quite poor.
@Alistair MacDonald
I think it would make *a lot* of sense for Apple to fix sound in Mobile Safari. Audio takes very little battery life. You should take a look at this W3C article: http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/12/sounding_out_the_audio_apis.html - Advanced HTML5 Audio Processing already works in Safari Nightly builds... the logical next step would be mobile.
@David Smith
and I have a bridge to sell you Yash
@Ashraf Alhashim
"Taking a cue from Apple, browser manufacturers will start to realize that they are missing out by not being in the app store business. Google Chrome already has an integrated app-store as its splash page. " So, let me get this right: you're saying other browser manufacturers will begin to take Apple's lead, and do what Google already did before Apple released iOS 5? Cause that's not stupid at all.
@Kervin Pierre
He also credits Geolocation and push notifications to IOS even though those were in widespread use long before IOS had them.
@Daniel Burke
Kervin Pierre "in widespread use long before iOS"? False. There are those who are fanboys...and there are those that hate for one reason or another. You only make yourself look silly when you make outlandish comments like this without any substantiation. The word 'App' was in use before Apple also...but ask the next 10 people the first thing/word that comes to mind when you say the word 'App' and then lie to me and tell me that the first word is not something Apple-related. Give them the credit they deserve and knock them where they can be knocked. Don't just hate them universally, as it seems you are.
@Jason Ivers
Daniel Burke That's BS... Phone related, but as likely Android as Apple with the asking ten people about "App" thing. Also, to others, Geolocation already exists in Chrome, and I'm assuming other Webkit browsers. I think a universal Chrome notification bar would be really cool, though. Google is already using Chrome (in Chrome OS) as a GUI interface for a computer... that's why they are ahead of the game as far as what the author is talking about.
@Joe Wong
"push notifications, geolocation, and offline capable applications". are we talking about Google Chrome or Safari in iOS?
@Joe Wong
and Square Enix is remaking their famous titles on Google Chrome btw
@Scirra
Actually IE9/IE10 are 2 to 3 times *slower* than other browsers if you render with WebGL! See: http://www.scirra.com/blog/58/html5-2d-gaming-performance-analysis Also, Firefox and Chrome already hardware accelerate their canvases in their latest stable releases, and Opera 12 will when it comes out too, so who exactly is left outside of mobile browsers..
@Kuba 'owca' Siemiatkowski
there already is a 'ville' like game from Wooga called Magic Land Island which runs on mobile.
@Yuri Dobronravin
HTML5 Sound on iOS is not really such a problem. We have done own HTML5 tech http://www.logicking.com/index.php?page=html5 and it has sounds on both iOS and Android. Yes only one sound at time is allowed but for most of games it's pretty sufficient. Apple done a great job with iOS 5.0 regarding to HTML5 release, Android is also doing good with 4.0 release. I very confident that in 2012 we will see a lot of quality HTML5 games. HTML5 is clear winner to me.
@Julio Vargas
LOL.... Wow, this article could not be more disconnected. All it does it outline some of the HTML5 feature and forgets that HTML5 is a DRAFT specification and is years away. But he's amusing.
@Christopher Parker
But all HTML5 is is a collection of features built on top of HTML4 / XHTML 1.1. HTML5 features are here, right now, and they're usable. "Years away"?
@Julio Vargas
Christopher Parker Actually that is incorrect. HTML5 is NOT a collection of features. HTML5 is a structure mark up language. The industry is misusing the term and therefore individuals are getting the wrong information. While people are using other languages (CSS3, JS, JQuery) along with html5 to make things work it is NOT what HTML5 is. Just go over and review the W3C on HTML5 and you'll quickly understand. Finally, while you can use "some" of HTML5 features they are not all supported by all browsers and the end user must have a modern browser.
@Can Arbaz
Oh crap, a new ugly Internet Explorer version too :(. Tired to write fixes for IE while coding.
@Taizo Nakamura
Future is just around the corner.
@Micheál Ó HÓgáin
Oh yeah, that's really going to fly, browsers that copy a product from a company that sues over things like push-to-call from an email.
@Lazar Radakovic
Judging by mobile marketshare, I'm pretty sure everybody loves Android.
@Taylor H. Perkins
I started laughing when you said Internet Explorer is going to blow away other browsers... Like laughing out loud...
@Seth Eheart
Me too. MFST will never be sexy or fast. Its not in their nature. Who the hell hires these writers?
@Bryson Connolly
And you're a software engineer? wow
@Peter Glassman
Typical "journalism" in the modern age. Absolute horseshit. Who paid who to say what? It only gets worse over time. Go away shill. Or be smarter about your shilling you fucking hack.
@Hironori Narushima
This feature was drawing in 1996. Sun micro-systems with Java/Applet... but this is not realized, and next decade will not comes this feature. Every application depend on device and OS platform. Drawing software will not move to HTML5 never ever.
@Stefan Parker
To your second to last point, although we never advertised it we support drag & drop cover photo uploads.
@Ouriel Ohayon
my prediction 2012 is the year of the native app. big time
@Keshav Singh
I have used Inkscape and has seen lots of limitation, I doubt if SVG format is even working correct. Will have to see how it shapes! But one thing is for sure - Browser will be the most important Desktop application on your computer :)..
@David Smith
I've used inkscape for years, it's wonderful. As a tool it's great, it is different than working with bitmaps so you have to get used to it.
@Luca Candela
HTML5 Ads authoring... we already emerged. Sencha makes Animator. You can mention that in the article, I don't mind.
@Chandan Benjaram
+1 to author predictions based on facts. In my view, HTML5 may not replace natives but serve as first choice for implementing native like apps over browsers and much more. Firefox should really look into making performance and canvas speed as high priority to compete in next generation even against IE. I can see there are several onshore/offshore companies emerging to serve future/HTML5 needs. One of them I have great experience with is Maisa Solutions. http://www.maisasolutions.com
@Dallon Feldner
"Internet Explorer 10 is faster" - yawn, heard it before for IE9, and IE8 before that. As a web developer, I just want Microsoft to stop making web browsers; or at least base IE on WebKit.
@Vadim Berman
An interesting topic, but you focus on several big players and less on general trends. Ads will definitely get as annoying as they can, I agree here (also likely more difficult to get rid of). BTW, you forgot to mention probably the most major development: an OS which runs HTML5 pages as native applications (the upcoming Windows 8).
@Nick Fleker Felker
Your predictions were okay. You didn't actually back them up with facts or statements from any browser companies. I am excited about what the web has to offer and now the Microsoft is finally stepping up its game, the web will serve as the best platform for developers.
@Costin Tuculescu
Where's the webcam and microphone support? WebRTC?
@Trevor Twining
I think the author successfully managed to piss off all the special interest groups, and therefore likely means the article is fairly balanced.
@Jon Finegold
the html5 ads opportunity is the most interesting, display ads need to get better and html5 / javascript will enable some captivating experiences with high engagement within the ad...it also opens up some potential risks and challenges for publishers, many start-up opportunities in this area - 2012 is just the beginning for html5ads.
@Carl Friend
I don't like web apps. Nice mention of inkscape though.
@Josh Whiting
Not even a mention of the camera access issue. I can't help but wonder if the lack of camera access is a conspiracy on the part of the big device and OS players to force a stronger market for native apps.