Soleron said:
I came here to post exactly that. HTML5 isn't perfect but it is better than proprietary pluigins like Silverlight or Flash. |
HTML 5 is meh.
Really, it's solving very few problems but hey, it's shiny and that's what people like.
The rendering engines in current browsers still haven't gotten HTML4/XHTML right and they've had a decade or so to do it. So now Safari and Chrome support HTML5... great. It won't be widely used until all modern browsers support it. It won't even be widely used when all modern browsers support it if legacy browsers still hold valuable market share. Even when all browsers do support it odds are at least a couple of them will screw it up and cause developers headaches.
Meanwhile 20 years from now, Flash and Silverlight and whoever else will be clicking champagne glasses and laughing, "Great job HTML5, I remember when I was doing that back in 2010. Good times!"
Reality is harsh... but at least HTML5 is shiny.
