HTML 5: Features you want desperately but still can't use

Speaker: Ian Hickson
As the HTML5 effort reaches its first big milestone -- feature completeness -- browsers are starting to implement it. It will be years before you can rely on HTML5 support when writing Web pages and applications, but you can start to experiment today to get a feel of what the new standard offers. This talk will explore some of the most recent implementations of HTML5 features.

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[DoubleIntruder]

I've been impressed with my experience of YouTube's HTLM 5 beta so far..

I've had non of the annoying stuttering problems that crop up with using Flash, & videos seem to load at a much steadier rate.

There is still a way to go before it rivals Flash for video image quality but i'd rather have a video that plays when i want it to as opposed to a video that plays when it wants to.

[KusuriRX]

until that license expires, which it does here soon. But thats not the point, we need OPEN STANDARDS for an OPEN web...

[HBDynamo]

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10, Firefox 6.0.2 Stable and have joined the Youtube HTML5 test, this video does not play.

I have these add-ons installed, Adblockplus, Request Policy and Quick Java with Flash disabled if it makes a difference. :shrugs:

[maw88ify]

@TheAshination What are you talking about ? Flash never copied anyone Flash started off as just an animation program called "FutureSplash" next it was bought by "Macromedia" and renamed "Macromedia Flash" , and they added the ability to code in Flash using Actionscript, and then it was bought by Adobe and is now called "Adobe Flash CS5" ...

HTML5 is only code no UI, but Flash CS5 is a drawing / Animation tool/ augmented reality/ WiiFlash / iPhone / android development kit... and MORE

[TheAshination]

@maw88ify Precisely my point. I'm glad we're finally making some decent changes that flash has worked so hard at trying to replicate (effectively I'll give em that. But not efficiently)

[maw88ify]

@TheAshination HTML5 It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (originally created in 1990) ,and HTML4 came out in 1997.

Flash was introduced in 1996. So this means HTML is way older technology, and Flash is newer technology.

[TheAshination]

@maw88ify and yea there's no denying that Apple would definitely be working toward the ultimate goal of dominant control over html5. It is within their best business interests

[TheAshination]

@maw88ify A good operating system should not have to go out of it's way to specially code work arounds for an old inferior technology. That doesn't make it a bad operating system, it means it's an operating system that's willing to take the crap from pro flash people for the period necessary to see this old technology made obsolete or long enough for flash to pick up it's act and fix it's bad coding.

[lilkwarrior]

@gobldegook1 Also, Flash is an option to disable on smartphones for security reasons more than the reason that it is slow and inefficient in your claim. By the way, I'm not Pro-Flash; I prefer HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript/jquery...

[lilkwarrior]

@gobldegook1

Claiming MAC OX is the most efficient OS just because in your experience Flash doesn't crash on MAC OS for you I would say is 'stupid' (I would never call a human being stupid, but to take your word, I'll put it in quotations).

That's like someone saying since the Max OSX doesn't offer the best support for the latest storage technology (Solid State Drives) because it lacks trim or other certain features (until Lion comes out) it doesn't belong in the conversation

[AMMARFALAKSHER]

nice