clipped from: www.dvorak.org For companies that compete with Microsoft, HTML5 is almost the Holy Grail, offering the ability to run applications regardless of the underlying operating system. While the browser isn’t more important than operating system today, Google this week firmly suggested it is only a matter of time.
At its developer conference this week, Google demonstrated HTML5 applications support inside future versions of its Chrome browser and the future Android 2.0 operating system. Mozilla executives also promised HTML5 support inside the forthcoming Firefox 3.5 browser.
Microsoft, meanwhile, has announced plans to support HTML5, but appears to be keeping it as arm’s length, at least for now.
