Introduction
For the last 10 years the web has reinvented itself. Moving from static HTML pages filled with information to interactive information portals, where massive amounts of people contribute to improve each other and spread knowledge.
The web was stale and static, presenting itself with only letters and inanimate images. This gave Adobe Flash and later Microsoft Silverlight; both are rich web application platforms for adding animation and interactivity to web pages, the ideal opportunity to take over and extend the development of the web design. Sites like YouTube pioneered and revolutionized videos on the web for example. Sites used these multimedia platforms to create better user experiences and they succeeded in doing so.
The reason on one hand for this development was mainly due to the lacking presence of e.g., video support or interactivity, from the current HTML or XHTML standard.
Now on the other hand a new HTML standard is coming into existence. The version number 5 of the HTML specification. It has been in development since mid 2004 [1] and is in its final stages of development as of February 2010.
What makes this iteration of the HTML standard interesting is that it aims to reduce the need for plug-in-base web application platforms such as the ones mentioned above, Flash or Silverlight. To carry out this, HTML5 introduces a number of new APIs; graphical 2D API, timed media playback API, offline storage database API, document editing API and many more [2].
This raises the question: What does this mean for the big players, Flash and Silverlight, if their biggest power users e.g., YouTube, the indie gaming community, rich internet application developers, make the switch over to HTML5. This paper will try...
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