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Chrome 4 Now Supports the HTML 5 Web SQL Database API
Google has announced support for the HTML 5 Web SQL Database API, and others are likely to follow soon or have already started on support for this API. In the meantime, the completion of the specification is blocked because all the implementers involved have chosen to use SQLite as underlying database, and multiple independent implementations are required for standardization.
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HTML5, H.264 and Flash roundup
Last week, InfoQ published a piece on YouTube offering HTML5 beta for its videos, in H.264 format. Shortly thereafter, Vimeo announced an HTML5 beta as well, also using H.264 as the video codec. However, Mozilla has come out against using H.264, whilst the recent iPad launch has focussed on the H.264 hardware decoding. Has Flash finally met its match?
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The HTML 5 sandbox Attribute Improves iFrame Security
The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is working jointly with W3C on developing the HTML 5 standard, which has been at "Last Call" at WHATWG for the last 3 months. During this time one feature which has changed more significantly is the sandbox attribute of the iframe element. sandbox can be used to isolate untrusted web page content from performing certain operations.
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YouTube announces HTML5 demo, but not for FireFox 3.6
YouTube announces an HTML5 video beta, which allows playback without resorting to using a Flash plugin. Videos are only available in the H.264 format, which leads to greater performance on some hardware devices, but leaves out the new FireFox 3.6 which only supports the Ogg video format.
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Chrome News: Mac and Linux Beta, Extensions and Web Sockets
Google Chrome’s latest additions are: Chrome Beta for Max and Linux, Extensions for Windows and Linux, and Web Sockets.
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Google Has Stopped Developing Gears
Google seems to be no longer interested in further developing Gears, promoting HTML 5 instead.
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Running HTML 5 Inside IE with Google Chrome Frame
Google has just released an Internet Explorer plug-in called Google Chrome Frame that enables Chrome rendering inside IE. That means that any page targeted for Chrome Frame will be rendered using Google’s rendering engine, including HTML 5 elements supported by Google, while the page is viewed with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
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SproutCore: An HTML 5 Application Framework
InfoQ has reported on SproutCore a couple times in the past and recently learned about the upcoming 1.0 release. SproutCore promises stunning desktop-class applications without plugins inside of the browser.
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Parties Fail to Agree on the HTML 5 Video Codec
Ian Hickson, the editor of the HTML 5 Specification, has recently removed the required codecs from the video and audio tags of the respective draft standard citing difficulties in reaching consensus among major companies involved in distributing video and audio content on the web.
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Firefox 3.5 Is a Worthy Update
A year ago, Mozilla entered the Guinness Book with a little over 8 M Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours. Today, still in the first day, Firefox 3.5 has an average of about 50 downloads /sec and a total of 3.6 million downloads at July 01 10:30 AM GMT. 3.5 is a worthy update considering the large number of improvements over 3.0 like native video. No need for Flash/Silverlight anymore.
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Will HTML 5 kill Flash?
As last week came to a close, the “Open Web” debate heated up after Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen, commented on how Adobe views HTML 5.
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Is Google Wave Going to Have an Impact on RIA/Silverlight?
The recently announced Google Wave platform, which is promoting HTML 5, is believed by some to have a major impact on RIA, including Silverlight, while others consider that Wave is actually a competitor for Microsoft’s SharePoint and Exchange rather than RIA. It's poll time.
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Google Pushes the Web Platform with Chrome 2.0 and Wave
Google has announced two more tools that will help in its mission “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful”. One of them is version 2.0 of its Chrome browser which aims to facilitate demanding client-side applications and the other one is Wave, a new environment for communication and collaboration on the Web.
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Location-Aware Browsing to become Mainstream?
With the W3C working on a specification that defines an API for providing scripted access to geographical location information, Mozilla recently announced built-in Geolocation support for Firefox 3.5. This is aligned with an earlier announcement from Opera that also adds support for Geolocation in their browser. Will this make geographically aware applications ubiquitous?
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Presentation: Building Large AJAX Applications with GWT 1.4 and Google Gears
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Rajeev Dayal discusses building applications with GWT and Google Gears. Topics discussed include an overview of GWT, integrating GWT with other frameworks, GWT 1.4 features, developing large GWT applications, integrating GWT and Google Gears, the architecture of a Google Gears application, Google Gears features and the Google Gears API.