HTML5 is a tasty treat
Web site operators should be getting excited about the possibilities presented by HTML5, the web language that is rapidly finding favour among developers and browser firms.
HTML5 presents a real and significant challenge to Java which has long enjoyed dominance in the web graphics area. So strong is, or was its position, that everyone was shocked when Steve Jobs chose to keep it off of his must-have iPad gadget. However, now it seems that Jobs may have been right to go with HTML5 – even if Flash was still to be found on many, many web sites.
So what of HMTL5? Well, the proof was always going to be in the eating, and from the samples we have tried it is tasty indeed.
Microsoft’s latest IE9 preview release used HTML5 to great effect, and presented early users with a dazzling array of apps, games, fun and trickery, but now Google has trumped even that effort. Google is also fighting for a share of the browser market, and like Microsoft it must do all it can to show off its application. And show off it has.
The HTML5, and Chrome only “The Wilderness Downtown’ site is an interactive pop video that is as technically astounding as it is charming and beautiful. The song may be a bit middle of the road for some tastes, but its inoffensive enough, and anyway, it becomes more of a soundtrack to what you are watching than the centre of attention that presumably the band thought it would be.
It is a staggering achievement and one that really shows how the internet is changing, and gives us a glance into the future. As Google said in a blogpost that coincided with the web site launch, “The project was built with the latest web technologies and includes HTML5, Google Maps, an integrated drawing tool, as well as multiple browser windows that move around the screen…
We hope you enjoy it.”
Enjoy it we did.
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
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