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Google Says HTML 5 Tools Leave Microsoft In the Dust | |
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| Time: 13:53 EST/18:53 GMT | News Source: CRN | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Google led off its Google I/O 2009 developer conference in San Francisco by declaring "the Web has won" -- that is, the Internet and Web browsers, not a computer's operating system, are the future of application development.
Google also showed off a number of new Web tools that demonstrate Google's embrace of HTML 5 and other emerging Web standards, a focus Google says sets it apart from Microsoft and other development competitors.
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| #1 By 17996 (131.107.0.105) at 5/28/2009 7:24:20 PM |
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Microsoft knew the web would win 13 years ago -- why do you think they bundled IE with Windows? They knew that internet-based development was the future. Most of the things in HTML5 and in Chrome were already available, at least in primitive form, to IE-targeting developers 10 years ago: video tag --> SMIL, canvas tag --> DirectAnimation, offline storage --> userdata behavior, web apps --> HTAs. The list goes on. Microsoft was at the same place then, that everyone else is at now.
Alas, whoever (I'm looking at you, Bill Gates) greenlighted the abandonment of MSHTML and switching to a 5-year goose chase aka Avalon/WPF is responsible for what could be the biggest blunder in Microsoft's history. Yet, aside from "platform independence" (which is a fallacy; it's really "vendor independence" since you're simply redefined "platform" from meaning the OS to meaning the collection of web standards), what does HTML5 give you that you couldn't do better (functionality and perf wise) with what you already have, like Flash, WPF, even Win32? Perf is interesting -- just think how many more CPU cycles are used when running a typical complex web app like Gmail in a browser, compared to how many it would take if it were a native app with the same features and UI. Luckily people have fast enough computers today; 10-12 years ago these types of browser-based apps would bring your computer to a halt, while the native apps would be lightning fast. Unfortunately for Microsoft, when they were way ahead, the hardware just wasn't there. |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 5/29/2009 8:07:12 AM |
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#1: Microsoft knew the web would win 13 years ago -- why do you think they bundled IE with Windows?
To kill Netscape. What do I win? |
| #3 By 9589 (76.6.27.110) at 5/29/2009 1:34:37 PM |
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I guess the good news is that finally no one will listen when the open sore crowd says Microsoft will be left in the dust for (fill in the blank here yourself), so Google has picked up the refrain.
Must be a slow news day in tech land - get a competitor of Microsoft's to say something stupid, print it and make Friday part of a long weekend . . . |
| #4 By 89249 (64.207.240.90) at 5/29/2009 1:41:47 PM |
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Of the companies I know who decided to use Google Apps as their main business apps... none remain.
Don't get me wrong. I use them for fun and personal things. Nothing beats MS Office still on my box. I still just upgrade ever few years at most. And #1, WPF is quite powerful. Don't discount it. But in all honesty. Web Apps *can* do alot of amazing things. But why would you spend the extended developement cycle when you can create apps with many more features in any of the many distributed models now? Google has its hands in many jars. I'm just glad their search and ad revenue can continue to finance it :) |
| #5 By 28801 (71.58.225.185) at 5/29/2009 1:53:20 PM |
| It will be a blend of the 2, much as it is now but with slightly more focus on the cloud. I never want to give up my desktop. I like to do video editing and no cloud is gonna give me the performance I get with my quad. |
| #6 By 16797 (65.95.8.81) at 5/29/2009 5:30:46 PM |
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#5 Google is not asking you to give up your dekstop. Quite the opposite, they (Google) are pushing strongly for much more powerful client side apps.. it just that they want those apps to run inside (any) browser.
Sure, in order to be able to make really powerful browser-based apps, you need a browser that can do HTML5/CSS3/SVG/compiled JavaScript, etc. In a way, it is also their response to Flash and Silverlight. They just demoed a 3D app running inside Chrome.. And they heavily use GPU to run that demo, as explained. |
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