HTML5 Is Breathing New Life Into the Web

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Unfortunately the article largely ignores the two elephants in the room, both stated (1) by the same Tim Berners-Lee as quoted in the article: Facebook and LinkedIn and others, and their aversion to sharing data with anyone else. Net neutrality issues.

Sure HTML5 might help bringing content and development back to browsers rather than native iPhone and Android apps, but if those phones are being crippled by wireless operators, apps will appear alot smoother and win again.

1. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-t...

True - without an open web, arguably your internet-based HTML5 app could be metered by Comcast or the other service providers - hence it would have been better to create your own isolated app for the iPhone, etc.

But what about apps that rely in some part on a web service to exchange data with your server? I'm guessing that Comcast could easily meter that data stream as well, so even a specifically-built iPhone app might fall prey to their meddling if it relies on an outside, hosted data source.

Keep in mind that an HTML5 app can behave itself like a native app.

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