2. Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards.
Steve Jobs, April 2010
The company’s future plans are based on HTML5 and JavaScript –
Julie Larson-Green, VP Microsoft
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3. Semantics
<section>, <article>, <header>, <footer>, <aside>, etc.
CSS3
text effects, animations, gradients, transformations, etc.
Multimedia
<video>, <audio> and <embed>
Graphics & 3D
<canvas>, SVG, WebGL, etc.
w3schools.com/html5/html5_reference.asp
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4. Device Access w3.org/2009/dap/
device API, geolocation, calendar, contacts, camera, etc.
also, see WAC and docs.phonegap.com for key influences
Performance html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/workers/basics/
web workers (JavaScript threads), WebGL, etc.
Offline Storage w3schools.com/html5/html5_webstorage.asp
session storage and local storage (beyond cookies)
Connectivity web sockets and XHR Level 2 (AJAX)
web sockets websocket.org/quantum.html
XHR Level 2 (AJAX) w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
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