html5

I was very dismayed when I read this yesterday.

• HTML5 kicked into 2014

A number of news services have done the rounds since, including this today on Slashdot.

• As HTML5 Gets 2014 Final Date, Flash Floods Mobile

I think it’s all a bit depressing really. So we have another 3-4 years to wait for the final spec to be sorted. Then of course we have to wait for the spec to be implemented (badly) by all the necessary browsers. Of course they are already supporting various bits of it, but their implementations will no doubt change along the way and cause untold numbers of apps to break with them. Then we have to wait for everyone to upgrade their browsers. So what is the real date that HTML5 is go? 2020?

All of a sudden native apps seem kinda appealing and Flash doesn’t seem quite as evil as it used to be.

Cheers

Tim…