| HappySqurriel said: While I haven't developed for it personally yet, I'm really not a fan of HTML 5 from what I know about it. A lot of what it seems to do is include the functionality of successful plugins into HTML by default while completely ignoring the core problems web-developers face on a daily basis; namely that HTML is stateless and a poor tool to develop most applications that are being built using it. |
Uhm, I'd say that embedding videos is one of the core problems in a lot of web designs when you have to face the shoddiness of Flash on every platform but windows.
Anyway, regarding state: HTML5 also includes specifications for client side storage including extended session, a local data store for JS and plugins and even SQL database access. So much so, that Google is putting their weight in replacing their own googlegears datastore plugin - powering their office web applicatons - with an HTML5 one.
