It looks like the phone browsers are improving at quite a rapid pace. This
release sez the iPhone will have canvas, webgl and several more powerful
html5 capabilities. http://goo.gl/CFR1u My bet is that Android's mobile
browser has, or will have these html5 features too.
This could be really good news for non-App phone developers who have
avoided html5 based apps due to lack of native phone capabilities. Games,
for example, may now have a greater likelihood of being in the browser.
NOTE: Apple's webgl initially is limited to iAds, weirdly enough. Read this
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661757
for more details. One cute note in the above is about Facebook building an
html5 app to avoid Apple's AppStore restrictions, just as Amazon did with
their html5 based Kindle reader webapp. I guess this is a sort of "beta"
release.
-- Owen
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