5 reasons why HTML5 will be the Next Big Thing in mobile space

HTML 5, the next revision of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the standard programming language for describing the contents and appearance of Web pages, is a new web technology that is quickly changing the face of the mobile market. The new technology is getting due attention from the developers and businesses due to the fact that it supports cross-platform application development, offers portability, scalable applications for browsers, and is more cost-effective and less labor-intensive than building native apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

More importantly, HTML5 offers a good alternative to the very idea of an App Store in its current form. It allows developers and publishers to avoid paying Apple and Google 30 per cent commission for selling apps through their app stores – thus bringing a fundamental shift about how we load new software onto our mobile devices. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was among the first few who said that non-proprietary open standards such as HTML5 will rule the mobile platform – enabling modern browsers to do the same functions as Flash. As you already know, Flash was never implemented on the iOS platform. In fact, Jobs was right, as in an abrupt U-turn in its mobile software strategy, Adobe had announced to cease developing its Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers. Adobe even acknowledged HTML5 as the “best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms”.

“HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively. We are excited about this, and will continue our work with key players in the HTML community, including Google, Apple, and RIM, to drive HTML5 innovation they can use to advance their mobile browsers,” felt Adobe VP Danny Winokur.

No doubt HTML5 is one of the hottest technologies right now in the mobile space given that it even provides you the capability to re-package Web apps as native apps on the various mobile platforms. In this blogpost, we are talking about five top reasons that show that HTML5 has got great potential.

1. It’s the future:

Analysts expect 2012 to be the year of HTML5 with a growing list of companies starting to adopt and develop in HTML5. Contemporary Analysis, on behalf of appendTo, a JavaScript and HTML5 consulting company, recently conducted an online survey in which it found out that 84 per cent of developers are planning to implement HTML 5 in projects within the next six months. One such recent example is Microsoft putting is energies into HTML5 in Windows 8. Microsoft has followed in Apple’s footsteps and has made the coming “Metro” version of Windows 8 destined for deployment in smartphones and media tablets with a version of 10 that will no longer feature browser plug-ins, thus relying mostly on HTML5. Dean Hachamovitch, the head of Microsoft’s Windows Internet Explorer team, said, the adoption of HTML5 is to provide consumers most out of touch-first browsing. Running a plug- in-free Metro version of IE10 will further improve security, reliability and privacy for consumers.

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