subject: Moving A Step Ahead With Html 5 In Mobile App Development [print this page] HTML5 is reaching heights at a very fast pace and it seems to defeat all the other technologies nowadays. HTML5 caters all the jazzed up images and amazing effects that instantly reacts to the user's actions. HTML 5 is a standard that is best-suited for game like interactivity that does not even need any installation of extra or additional software. HTML5 is best used by developers for better smartphone support, mobile tablets and PC's.
Winning over Flash format, the other best video and audio technology, HTML5 is definitely becoming a step ahead that is sweeping away all other existing technologies. Silicon Valley investor, Roger McNamee is predicting the future that HTML5 will surely enticle all artists, media companies and all the miscellaneous advertisers to bring a difference in their offerings and will create a drastic change like never before. Many companies are predicting that HTML5 will have a great popularity in near future. The 'Angry Birds' creator Rovio Entertainment is also soon going to launch HTML5 avian projectiles at enemy pigs. Playboy and Sports illustrated publications are also preferring to use HTML5 to display online content. This trend was started by Apple, Google Inc. and their competitors like Microsoft Corp. by building HTML5 for all the latest version of their web browsers. Sites that use HTML5 cater distinct key features from the sites that are built on Flash, and if we look at the percentage figure, almost 34% of the popular sites in the world are now using HTML5.
Recently Pandora Media chose HTML5 over Flash to enable the site load faster. Apple did not allow to depend on Flash for various technologies. On the other hand, Google is still taking the support of Flash in its browsers. Developers want to build multi platform web apps that would work in one of the two platforms : Android and iOS. To experience a great work on web, HTML5 is the best standard that offers various elements like typography, graphics, videos and many more. HTML5 is a great standard for mobile apps as nowadays ads on mobiles are also a rich source of revenue. It was quite evident that HTML5 would capture the attention of a lot of people and specially the game developers who saw the pre-version and used it too. HTML5 games might be lacking behind in the overall graphics and quick action PC, but one can surely play HTML5 based free social games on the net without having to attract people.
Everybody wants users attention, so it is advisable that one should think like a user and search for devices that can support the latest standard.
