HTML5 Challenges

Jeff Noble — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:56:37 +0000

If you haven’t heard about HTML5, then I’m both happy that you have awoken from your coma, and sad that you haven’t been following the magic miracle that will finally fix all the browser compatibility problems and give us amazing animation and video without “a buggy/lazy” plugin. While the development of HTML5 is encouraging, and recent developments like YouTube rolling out HTML5 video for the two browsers out now that support it, as well as Apple refusing to put Flash on the iPad and iPhone, it still might be a bit soon to crown HTML5 the king of the web any time soon. I found the following links below that highlight some of the current challenges, I know, shame on me for bringing it up.

Enjoy Time Spent Encoding Videos

“There is no single combination of containers and codecs that works in all HTML5 browsers. To make your video watchable across all of these devices and platforms, you’re going to have to encode your video more than once.”
http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html

Hope You Like Banners

“HTML5 won’t kill Flash banner ads – they’ll just be done in HTML5, but now you can’t ignore them with a Flash-blocker”
http://radleymarx.com/2010/02/five-myths-of-html5-vs-adobe-flash

Just a Reminder, Standards Move Slow

“The de facto standard for the Web in the past decade was IE6.”
http://blog.est.im/archives/830/comment-page-1

A Somewhat Misleading Final Specification Date

“The HTML5 specification is not expected to be finalized until 2022″
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/20-Essential-Things-to-Know-About-the-HTML5-Web-Language-329684/?kc=EWKNLEDP02082010A

Ready or Not?