Fabrizio, HTML5 is a buzzword meant to summarize a bunch of new browser features that affect what you can do in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The feature list is not identical in each browser so HTML5 is still vague.
The difference between the Muro app and some much earlier JavaScript- based drawing tools you might have seen is that the Muro app uses the canvas tag which allow more low-level control over vector and bitmap visual components, without overloading the browser with tons of tiny DOM elements to display pixels. If the other editors you've seen were in Flash, then the user would need to have the Flash plugin installed and running before the app would work. The functional difference for the user isn't huge, but really Flash was invented to fill holes in the design of early browsers. Those holes are filled more elegantly by standardized features native to modern browsers, like persistent user data storage and the canvas tag. What's missing today is a development environment for HTML5 that rivals the dev environment for Flash. Adobe Dreamweaver (DW) doesn't yet provide excellent HTML5 support out of the box, although there is a Dreamweaver HTML5 plugin (http://www.adobe.us/devnet/dreamweaver/ articles/html5_update_for_dwcs5.html) that I'm guessing Adobe will enhance and roll into a future version of DW. A big part of the power of Flash is the tooling that Adobe (Macromedia) has always been careful to provide to designers. The tools allow designers to build and publish cool stuff without first becoming hard-core technologists. Since Apple is hurrying the decline of Flash, Adobe will have to hurry the creation of top-notch HTML5 tools that are as good as the Flash tools. No other player in the market seems poised to do it. Joe Sondow http://www.sondow.com On Aug 12, 4:51 am, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/12/10 13:26 , Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > > > On 8/11/10 22:47 , Wildam Martin wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:16, Kirk <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> apparently this is implemented in HTML 5. > >>>http://muro.deviantart.com/If so, it might not matter that > >>> the iPad doesn't support flash. > > >>http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/10aug/uf014211.gif > > > Excellent point ;-) > > Now, jokes apart and back serious, I still have difficulties in > explaining what HTML 5 is. It appears to be HTML + JavaScript, right? > I think I've seen in the past visual editors such as muro, and clearly > they weren't HTML 5. What's the difference, in this case? > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxj4D0ACgkQeDweFqgUGxcIOACeNCe+naouicuk8BZ/BLtPCJXO > AjkAn3vIjdWeeRlsFBplTDi4b0uRNEEJ > =4+44 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
