A Glimpse of HTML5′s Capabilities
August 7th, 2009The guys at IO 9elements have created a great showcase of HTML5′s capabilities. The page loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a JavaScript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet and clicking on one of them will make the entire tweet message appear onscreen. Quite impressive considering there’s no Flash.
HTML5 is taking great strides in adoption and exposure, with all of the modern browsers supporting most of the new features already (with Internet Explorer lacking the most support unsurprisingly). HTML5′s main agenda is to rid of plug-in-based rich Internet media applications technologies such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. Once this baby hits full stride in the near future, you’ll be seeing really cool web apps and webtoys without the need for these clunky, proprietary technologies. Even YouTube will be fully realized without Flash.
