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Ask HN: Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not?
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Re: Ask HN: Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not?
#2Programmer.
It doesn't excite me in the least because, since I can't afford to alienate big chunks of my audience, it might have enough penetration to use in, oh, 3-5 years? Meh.
Re: Ask HN: Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not?
#3Programmer. It doesn't excite me in the least because, since I can't afford to alienate big chunks of my audience, it might have enough penetration to use in, oh, 3-5 years? Meh.
Do you think the web will be a lot better 5 years from now as a result of HTML5?
Re: Ask HN: Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not?
#4Both.
I haven't seen anything exciting about it. It doesn't let me do anything significant that I couldn't with existing technology. It's just the New Style.
Re: Ask HN: Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not?
#5Mostly a programmer, and not really. To be honest I would be much happier with better CSS capabilities (better syntax, variables) than video tags and whatnot. I'm not against it obviously, but probably won't be rushing out to learn all the new features.
Re: Ask HN: Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not?
#6Programmer. It doesn't excite me in the least because, since I can't afford to alienate big chunks of my audience, it might have enough penetration to use in, oh, 3-5 years? Meh.
That's the main issue. The user base for it will be relatively small for several years.
Hopefully many of the people on IE 6 will leapfrog to a HTML 5 browser in the next few years, that would solve a lot of issues.
Re: Ask HN: Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not?
#7Programmer. It doesn't excite me in the least because, since I can't afford to alienate big chunks of my audience, it might have enough penetration to use in, oh, 3-5 years? Meh.
The Google HTML5 plugin for IE6 might not alienate your audience.
Re: Ask HN: Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not?
#8programmer. offline storage, sql storage, canvas, and web workers are very interesting.
Re: Ask HN: Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not?
#9Programmer. It doesn't excite me in the least because, since I can't afford to alienate big chunks of my audience, it might have enough penetration to use in, oh, 3-5 years? Meh.
The Google HTML5 plugin for IE6 might not alienate your audience.
The Google Chrome Frame plugin is hardly a panacea for old browsers.
Re: Ask HN: Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not?
#10Both; and no it doesn't excite me in the least because of such a slow adoption rate of new browsers.