One of the great discussions that came about by Scott's email is around "who will take the HTML5 crown"
Basically not all implementations of the HTML5 spec will be equal, and the way it may turn out is that MS thru IE9 and it's future tooling may implement the best version of html5 to which all other browsers will be held against. This is the number one issue I'm watching in this space for. Just how far will MS take HTML5 and more importantly how will it extend it. Because if MS does what I think there going to do there going to tack onto HTML5 a whole bunch of Windows specific extension api's that will cloudy the perception of just what HTML5 does. Could you imagine a future where a lot of MS's products are HTML5 web apps, and only run perfectly in a IE9 world because of these extensions. How will FF/Opera/Chrome keep up with them. Look at office online, that is optimized for the IE experience. Sure it works great in other browsers BUT theres effort there to make it work that way. A whole new world of fragmentation will happen around HTML5 implementation. Eg. Let's say a lot of the really cool features of SL make it into MS's HTML5 stack... 1. Smooth Streaming 2. Deepzoom 3. WPF protocols beyond HTML5 ones 4. Layout framework beyond simple canvas 5. Binding infrastructure beyond simple binding in HTML5 MS can very well port a lot of WPF/Silverlight concepts into a HTML5/Javascript stack and completely obliterate the other browsers.. All of a sudden the only place you can run an app would be IE9 .. This is why I like the idea of keeping HTML5 features very minimal and to the spec, not much room for extensibility. Then anything that really goes beyond keep in a plugin model so that it can be reused across browser.. It's going to be very interesting to see how far MS take HTML5 and it's tooling for HTML5.... Regards Jose Note: The information contained in this message and any attachment to it is privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to the message, and please delete it from your system. Thank you. Cynergy Systems.
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