While the entire HTML 5 standard is years or more from adoption, there are many powerful features available in browsers today. In fact, five key next-generation features are already available in the latest (sometimes experimental) browser builds from Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome.

Tim O’Reilly: Google Bets Big on HTML 5

Striving to avoid the mistake Microsoft made when it bet on binary applications over the web, Google is counting on HTML 5 adoption to expand the capability of web applications. Tim O’Reilly describes Google’s strategy and lists five key HTML 5 features that are already supported in Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome.

Tags: HTML5, Google, O’Reilly, TimO’Reilly, canvas, browsers, webapps, web applications, webstandards

Filed under: Advocacy, Code, Design, HTML, HTML5, Web Design, Web Standards, XHTML, development

16 Responses to ““Google Bets Big on HTML 5″”

1. 
   Shane said on 27 May 2009 at 5:34 pm:

   Thanks for making me aware of this sort of stuff.

2. 
   Mike said on 27 May 2009 at 5:41 pm:

   Bill O’Reilly? I think Tim O’Reilly should be offended.

3. 
   John Lascurettes said on 27 May 2009 at 6:08 pm:

   Unsurprisingly missing from that article and the comments is mention of IE and Microsoft’s proven commitment to HTML5. Once again, I see MS dragging their feet on a developing, embraceable and relevant standard. I don’t think that this time they can de-facto kill it through non-action (e.g., never supporting the XHTML mime type). I hope anyway.

   Every one of the other major rendering engines are on board.

4. 
   Tokind said on 27 May 2009 at 6:57 pm:

   It would be pretty hard to come up with a more ironic juxtaposition than referring to Tim O’Riley as Bill O’Riley. I vote this post number 1 for the Daily Report bloopers short.

5. 
   John Dowdell said on 27 May 2009 at 7:46 pm:

   The comments at Tim’s piece are probably more valuable than the preso regurg.

   jd/adobe

6. 
   Michael Kozakewich said on 28 May 2009 at 12:39 am:

   I wonder how likely it is that there’ll be problems down the road because of browsers implementing unfinished specifications? Does it usually matter, or is the W3C careful enough that their rough drafts are good enough to use? I don’t yet know the finer workings of the specifications.

   Your headline has mismatched quotes. Also, when it’s referenced at the start of the comments, it’s got quadruple-quotes, which is hilarious.

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8. 
   Jeffrey Zeldman said on 28 May 2009 at 9:52 am:

   It would be pretty hard to come up with a more ironic juxtaposition than referring to Tim O’Riley as Bill O’Riley.

   Yeah. I’m sorry, Tim.

   This is the downside of blogging via iPhone while in a doctor’s office.

9. 
   J David Eisenberg said on 28 May 2009 at 5:04 pm:

   canvas: love it. video: like it. Embedded SVG and MathML: great idea.

   From what I gather from a quick skim of the spec, if someone comes up with some other great XML markup other than the ones that HTML5 now handles, HTML5 won’t integrate it well, as it doesn’t yet support namespaces
   .
   What disappoints me most is that HTML5 allows tag soup, even if the spec does tell implementers how to handle malformed documents. HTML5 will also bring back “closing tag paranoia” (does this element really need a closing tag or not?)

10. 
    pd said on 29 May 2009 at 2:34 am:

    Too bad they still are not supporting and yet. What codecs are they going to support? Making this decision public would surely help to synch the almost-released Firefox 3.5?

    Regardless, it’s all irrelevant until a) those hacks at MS get up to speed b) Google cranks the marketing up enough for Chrome to get some sort of traction of it’s own, market share wise.

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16. 
    handbags said on 6 January 2010 at 2:37 am:

    Brooklyn was always hip. New York is New York. (I can’t vouch for Staten Island, though. The kids there didn’t wear shoes until they started high school.) ;)
    I grew up in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn and trucked an hour on the subway every day to Stuyvesant High School when it was still on 1st Ave and 15th Street.
    No transition – all of a piece.

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