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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?

Is HTML5 Ready? http://ishtml5ready.com/
Is HTML5 Ready Yet? http://ishtml5readyyet.com/

A Letter From Your Friendly iPhone

Jeff Noble — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:52:11 +0000

Trend: Touch Screen Interface

Dear Human Owner,

Hi there, remember me? It seems like yesterday you were ranting and raving about my ground breaking spectacular touch screen interface, ease of use, polished little icons and ultimate status symbol as the latest hipster accessory. Now that it’s been awhile I’ve just been forgotten in your pocket with a bunch of lint, your wallet and keys, a few dirty old coins that hurt my feelings and scratch my polished screen. Well I don’t know if you’ve noticed but I’ve made some changes with my latest software updates and if you have a problem with that I’ll totally copy/paste all over your face while I video it… just as long as you don’t ask me to I don’t know… send MMS messages (I hate those things). Flash? Never heard of it.

Signed,
Your iPhone

VOTE ME UP and I'll give you a big old iHug!

1999 called, it wants it’s Flash intro back.

Jeff Noble — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:50:28 +0000

Trend: Flash Intros

Let me start of by saying I love Flash, that’s primarily my background, but the days of having the high tech cute Flash intro to your website have come and gone just like that jammin’ Hypercolor t-shirt you used to love so much. Animation just because you can do animation, like it’s possible or whatever, is very very bad. Please stop. Visitors come to a website for information, not to learn how awesome you are in vague generalities and exploding 3d text. Kaboom!

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