HTML 5 is the New Browser Standard After Gears
Google has demonstrated a new concept version of Gmail that they advertise to be HTML 5 enabled. The World Wide Web’s always been written in HTML. HTML while satisfactory, has had issues in an obscure area known as the Web Applications; this is something HTML 5 tries to fix. This is no ordinary upgrade on Gmail or some app in being given off-line abilities though. To begin with, the database definition on HTML 5 allows any web function to locally create and utilize a database; and App Cache allows local caching of its executable state: both spelling improved speed in addition to off-line ability. HTML 5 is able to work on any standard compatible device; with its geolocation ability that allows the browser to reliably estimate where the device is located, it makes for a handy portable device too. And better standardization allows webpages designed on HTML 5 to appear in the exact same way on all HTML 5 compatible devices – computers, mobiles, anything.
Google used to have Gears, for its off-line ability. But HTML 5 is so promising that Google plans to phase out Gears now, and web developers are being encouraged to follow suit too. A part of Google’s reason for this current migration comes from the Chrome browser. While to support Gears the PC has the Chrome browser that is on version 3 yet, the Mac, will never have it. And it isn’t as simple as just designing a Gears version for Snow Leopard either – there are insurmountable technical hurdles, apparently. But all the functionality that Gears would bring, HTML 5 would do better, with an open standard to be supported on all browser platforms to boot. Support for Gears while it continues, is expected to not run forever: Google is asking developers to quickly make the shift to HTML 5.
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