HTML5 for Mobile

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20 points·rocksy··7 comments

This article is laughably light on specifics and big on meaningless sentences like 'HTML5 is an effective solution to the challenges of delivering content to smartphones in a consistent and efficient manner.'

Don't waste your clicks.

Haha, the reason I love HN is because of vicious responses like this.

When the headline says "What You Need to Know" it doesn't really mean you.

I think the biggest issue for adoption is overlooked -- advertisers and monetization. Flash has been around for so long that the infrastructure has been built around it, and it's quite stable. As more companies learn how to harness HTML 5 for advertising purposes (with metrics, etc), we'll see more and more of it.

Display advertising on the web has surely been around for longer than Flash?

Perhaps the style and metrics used in mobile ads needs some work, but I don't think HTML5 changes anything in any meaningful way.

"Display advertising on the web has surely been around for longer than Flash?"

True, but pretty much only as static displays. I do agree, though, HTML5 isn't a game changer, just another means to deliver moving content (only open, and not proprietary to one company)

Ah, I misunderstood. So you're talking about something like <canvas> animations or even <video> ads?

I could see how that could be a big deal for iPad users. But it doesn't seem like it changes the fundamentals of web advertising.

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