HTML5 what the future holdsOPERA'S SUPPORT FOR HTML5 MOBILE WEB APP DEVS

Patrick H. Lauke / Bango Nexus / Cambridge / 8 March 2012

Web Evangelist at Opera

what do you mean by

HTML5 ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24374884@N08/4603715307/

“...extending the language to better support Web applications [...] This puts HTML in direct competition with other technologies[...] , in particular Flash and Silverlight.”

Ian Hickson, Editor of HTML5http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jan/0215.html

www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/archives/paranoid_0.4

web as the platform

making “native” capabilities available

in the browser

www.textfiles.com/underconstruction

www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API

www.w3.org/TR/netinfo-api

www.w3.org/TR/battery-status

www.w3.org/TR/vibration

www.w3.org/TR/webrtc

...and many more

dret.typepad.com/dretblog/html5-api-overview.html

What's Opera doing tosupport developers?

1. the browser

www.opera.com/mobile

shinydemos.com/qr-code

shinydemos.com/qr-code

shinydemos.com/qr-code

2. developer tools

www.opera.com/developer/tools

www.opera.com/developer/tools/mobile

www.opera.com/dragonfly

remote debugging

my.opera.com/dragonfly/blog

my.opera.com/dragonfly/blog/style-profiler-preview

https://bitbucket.org/scope/dragonfly-stp-1/

3. education

dev.opera.com

is it all safe to use, right now?

“The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed”William Gibson

beware browser sniffingphoto: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timdorr/2096272747/

why we doweb apps vs native?

www.opera.com/developerpatrick.lauke@opera.com