{"id":9377,"date":"2011-06-16T18:08:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T18:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/html5_week_in_review.html"},"modified":"2011-06-16T18:08:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T18:08:40","slug":"html5-week-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/html5-week-in-review.html","title":{"rendered":"HTML5 Week in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Facebook, Financial Times and Acrobat HTML5 News<\/em><\/p>\n

Facebook declares war on Apple<\/strong>: Its only Thursday and this week has been a huge one so far with regards to HTML5 – with Facebook looking like it will have a new HTML5 app which bypasses the Apple App Store. Is it in fact “declaring war<\/a>?” I am not sure but after the recent news from Microsoft<\/a> relating to HTML5 – the trend in the market is clear.<\/p>\n

HTML5 Video on Set Top Boxes<\/strong>: Then there is the news that ActiveVideo’s new CloudTV platform will have HTML5 support<\/a> as well. How soon till we can watch all TV on any browser which supports the newest HTML variant?<\/p>\n

Really Popular Financial Times<\/strong>: I recently covered<\/a> the new HTML5 app from the Financial Times which I love. Now it turns out the app has had 100,000 downloads in week<\/a>! This is a bit surprising to me because as most of us know the app isn’t really a download since it is cloud-based but hey its positive HTML5 news – even if it makes no sense so I thought I’d share. \"smiley-embarassed\"<\/p>\n

Acrobat on HTML5 Coming Soon<\/strong>: Finally, the open-source developer community has embraced<\/a> HTML5 as well – the new pdf.js project in fact isan open-source initiative to bring a native PDF reader to the world of HTML5 and JavaScript – without the need for an external app with its different interface, etc. Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n

What’s next?<\/p>\n

We intend to use pdf.js to render PDFs “natively”, within Firefox itself. Our most immediate goal is to implement the most commonly used PDF features so we can render a large majority of the PDFs found on the web. We believe we can reach that point in less than 3 months (the entire code so far is less than one month old, and it already renders a large set of PDF features).<\/p>\n

Initially we will make a Firefox extension available to interested users that enables inline PDF rendering using pdf.js, but our ultimate goal is of course shipping pdf.js with Firefox. This will result in a substantial usability but also security improvement for our users. pdf.js uses only safe web languages and doesn’t contain any native code pieces attackers could exploit.<\/p>\n

In all an awesome week for HTML fans and developers looking for the next big trend in the market. It looks like the 15-year Post Internet Boom Mega-Cycle<\/a> predicted by Roger McNamee, managing director and co-founder of Elevation Partners has begun in earnest.<\/p>\n

TMC<\/a> where I am CEO is cosponsoring an HTML5 event called DevCon5<\/a> in Manhattan, July 27-28, 2011 and the show is a must-attend for developers, designers, media companies and executives who don’t want to be left in the dust.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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