Google Says “Hello HTML5”

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HTML5 standard is perking up fast and, maybe more prominently, web browsers have been implementing support for many of the features explained in the projected web standard. Yet there is lot to do but it has reached to a point where it is a practical alternative to proprietary plugins or technologies. The Mountain View Company Google, one of the big supporters of HTML5, thinks that it is now prepared, or very close, to have it implemented on a larger scale so much so that it is slowly dropping support for its own Gears plugin in favor of HMTL5.

Ian Fette from the Google Gears Team wrote -

If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it’s because we’ve shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5. We’re not there yet, but we are getting closer.

We realize there is not yet a simple, comprehensive way to take your Gears-enabled application and move it (and your entire userbase) over to a standards-based approach. We will continue to support Gears until such a migration is more feasible, but this support will be necessarily constrained in scope,” he added.

The company has always been a high supporter of web standards and usually strives to execute its apps and websites using standard, open technologies. Google has been mentioning that Gears is only a temporary measure and that HTML5 was the way to go. And now Google has finally stated that it would no longer add any further features to the tool.

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honeytech Says:
February 22nd, 2010 at 7:14 pm

HTML5 standard is perking up fast in Google Gears http://bit.ly/9FdlMt

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HoneytechBlog Says:
February 22nd, 2010 at 7:55 pm

Google Says “Hello HTML5” http://bit.ly/9XNyoN

Maxwell Says:
February 22nd, 2010 at 5:29 pm

This is great to know that HTML5 will soon be going mainstream. Google always abides to web standards — unlike another company we know with that Explorer browser.
.-= Maxwell´s last blog ..10 Great Open Source Windows apps =-.

Honey Singh Says:
February 22nd, 2010 at 7:42 pm

@maxwell
Yeah its good to see that Google is sporting the HTML5 but do you know about the news which says that Adobe worked on pausing the development of HTML5 with a deal from W3C?
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/02/adobe_is_sabotaging_html5.html
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=107092

Maxwell Says:
February 22nd, 2010 at 8:53 pm

Well I read the rebuttal at the Adobe blog link you posted and I believe the author’s opinion (interpretation). I could see Adobe maybe worried about HTML5 eating into Flash’s dominance, but I don’t see it from that vantage point. Adobe has a well-deserved reputation so I’ll give em the benefit of the doubt.
I’ll try to peek more news on this topic though.
.-= Maxwell´s last blog ..10 Great Open Source Windows apps =-.

Honey Singh Says:
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:52 am

@Maxwell The later official comments from the “Larry Masinter” seems to be true but on the other hands i’m confused with the threaded comments at AppleInsider.
In the nutshell i’m agree with your points that we need to research more before declaring any result on Adobe’s and HTML5 war.

Maxwell Says:
March 10th, 2010 at 10:15 pm

On the other hand, I’m getting annoyed with all of those Flash player plugin holes. What’s Adobe thinking?
And I HATE Acrobat Reader with a PASSION!!! It’s become bulky and bloated. WTF do I need a 23MB download file to install an app to READ (er view) PDF files????
I prefer Foxit PDF Reader instead…only a 5 meg download.
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Honey Singh Says:
March 10th, 2010 at 11:05 pm

@Maxwell Everything has its own pros and cons. I’m not clear on the mystery but partially agree with your view over Foxit and Adobe reader.
On the other hand i like the other creation’s of Adobe like Adobe Creative Suite and Adobe Air (sometime have memory hog issues)

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