Microsoft favoring HTML5 over Silverlight
Microsoft hinted at deeper HTML5 support earlier this year
Competition in the front end, Rich Internet Application space has really been getting intense, but there appears to be some solidifying behind one of the emerging standards. Reports are abounding across the news channels and the blogosphere that Microsoft is shifting its emphasis away from its own Silverlight rich client environment in favor of HTML5.
HTML5 received a major boost earlier this year from Apple, which famously specified the standard as the preferred rich client platform for the iPad and iPhone over Adobe Flash.
Microsoft hinted at deeper HTML5 support earlier this year. ZDNet’s Ed Bott reported in May how Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer division, said straight out that “the future of the Web is HTML5.”
HTML5 is still at Working Draft stage within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body, and the emerging standard is intended for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web, and incorporating features such as video playback and drag-and-drop, also provided by third-party browser plug-ins such as Silverlight and Flash.
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