Friday, March 9, 2012

Week 9 Reading Notes


 
HTML5 Tutorial

- Very understandable that advances in technology call for a new language. The new features - like <canvas, <video>, etc, are what make part of web 2.0 possible. 
- Good to know that this new language is what supports most video function in browsers rather than a plugin. It's so annoying when plugins crash! 
- Not sure that I understand how "drag and drop" really works yet...
- It seems like it's safe to assume, especially given the geolocation function and caches, that HTML5 is behind most "advanced" - read snazzy - websites. 

Wikipedia: HTML5 
- When reading the first tutorial, I wondered if HTML5 was meant to run on smartphones and tablets. Good to know. 
- As an undergraduate student, tenth graders in my practicum class used Flash to illustrate a short story. I remember how cumbersome it was to teach and to use - I can't imagine what it must be like as a web page development tool. And now...it's gone! No longer the standard! 
- What happens when Recommendation is released? Will there every be a point when there is no longer interoperation between languages, or that the possibilities of the new language are compromised because of attempts to remain interoperable? 

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