HTML5 and the Mobile Market
Having a cross platform experience with HTML5 does not only spell the end to one of the differences between Mac and PC users – there is another player in the field, and that is the mobile market. And you can imagine the repercussions of HTML5 on both the Android Market and the App Store. The rise in popularity of the Android smart phone creates the need for HTML5, to completely do away with the business of being entirely dependent on your operating system to take advantage of the Internet. Google tried to do it with Google Chrome, but the results were far from satisfying. Maybe with HTML5, things will change, but 2012 is scheduled only for a complete working draft of HTML5 by W3C and WHATWG, and not full implementation.
But with HTML5, the industry of creating applications for the mobile platform has to undergo the conversion as well. HTML5 is touted to need no plugins like Adobe Flash, but is also being created to be an application platform as well, for mobile. This means no IOS or Android OS distinction – as long as you can write code in HTML5, your web page or mobile application can cross the platforms too.
For the blogging industry, the introduction of HTML5 is more an advantage. While bloggers will need to use a PSD to HTML5 service to convert their PhotoShop designs into the new format again, they will also have the ability to produce richer content on their blogs like video. Bloggers can study HTML5 – there are no restrictions, but if they would rather concentrate on blogging, which is their business in the first place, perhaps hiring a PSD to HTML5 service would be much better for them.
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