Category: Html

HTML5 is the Next Wave in Markup Language on the World Wide Web

HTML5 is currently in development as the next revision of existing HTML and it’s rumored to be good for more than just basic video. A team of three developers at Google who have had some spare time on their hands (actually, Google has a 20% time policy, whereby Google engineers are allowed to spend 1/5 of their workday on projects that aren’t necessarily in the scope of their formal job descriptions) are working on Quake II, a video game involving demanding graphics that will be able to run in a browser window.

The initial plan is for the game to be run in either the Google Chrome or Apple Safari web browser. The video game will use an HTML5 canvas and WebGL for graphics acceleration.

The Quake II project was revealed on April 1st, and reports have said that the project is already successfully underway. If you’re interested in learning more about the game, check out the video below.

Via Engadget and InformationWeek.

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categories Browser-Based Games, Html | JJ | datetime April 3, 2010 6:40 pm | comments Comments (0)

HTML5 Will Be a Game Changer

The Apple iPad was released today and companies are interested in new and innovative ways to allow consumers to view video content on these multimedia machines. Most of the current computing technology makes use of flash players, but Apple and Adobe don’t get along quite so well. On the contrary, Apple thinks that Adobe software crashes too easily and consumes way too much memory.

Considering the facts, Apple’s argument makes sense. The process for creating a flash video with Adobe’s Flash CS4 is a relatively straightforward process, but the code used to create such a video takes up 318 lines. Using HTML5 to complete a similar task would only take one. Unnecessary lines of code is one of the factors that contributes to the high crash rate that Apple is referring to.

HTML5 is still relatively new technology, but it will have a significant impact on the way content is viewed in web browsers in the future. Jeff Whatcott from Brightcove, a video publishing platform, says that “HTML5 is about video in the browser, and today it is primarily about video in web browsers on mobile platforms like Apple iPad, iPhone, and others.”

Via TheHuffingtonPost.

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categories Flash, Html | JJ | datetime 4:51 pm | comments Comments (0)

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