JackClark

On another thread it was stated that HTML5 wouldn't surface until 2012 so I thought a thread highlighting it's current and imminent uses might be useful.

Youtube. I've been using this one for a while and it's certainly not as snappy as Flash but I have to say it's pretty good, especially on the Mac where Flash is pants

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Google Apps. Bit of a near future one this but Gears has been dropped to be replaced by HTML5

https://docs.google.com/support/bin/...?answer=176376
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com...ogle-docs.html

Here's a nice web app
http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/

A few others
http://html5gallery.com/

Dedrater

I will give a better answer on what I think about it all on Monday, as writing about this feels all to much like work.

Lets start with the quote below, which a lot of people are misreading as the ultimate demise of Flash.

This may be the case, but the keyword there is reduce, what HTML5 will do, is what Flash did 9 years ago, but, what the projected specification for HTML5 can never do, is what Flash does right now.

What is it Flash (and other RIAs) have that HTML5 has not addressed? Simply the fact that it will never be interactive, this is the real future of web development.

Some of the biggest web development companies on the planet (firstborn, 2Advanced, Group 94, Red Interactive, Big Spaceship, Unit 9, etc) extensively use Flash and still insist it is the way forward, not that HTML5 is not needed, it is, but RIAs will be used as well as, not instead of

Quickly, just to address the hype around Youtube pushing forward HTML5. Well they are not, not even close. They are using the <video> tag/element and that is it. They have just moved from one proprietary solution, Flash to another, the H.264 video codec.

The fundamental flaw in what they are doing, is there choice of codec, H.264, W3C have not yet not specified a standard video codec, but in any case, why are they trying to use one that incurs licensing fees? (Apple & Google) This goes against what HTML5 stands for.

Ogg Theora codec, which is a free, open video codec (what consumers ultimately want) is supported by all browsers, apart from one, Safari.

Dedrater

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06...showcase_hype/

tathan

I love El Reg... The comments are usually pretty good too.

Dedrater

This is one I like;