Let’s take some time to review the statistics of HTML5 and how effective it has been with companies and generating revenue.

BostonGlobe.com, an example of HTML5 Responsive Design

Responsive web design has its roots in emerging responsive architecture. This way of designing rooms and spaces incorporates technology that automatically adjusts according to the number of occupants or the flow of people. For example, some climate control systems can adjust a room’s temperature and ambient lighting as it fills with people. Responsive web design applies that idea to website technologies. Using this approach, websites will be able to respond to the user’s behavior and environment to adjust screen size, platform, and orientation. Using a mix of flexible grids, layouts, images, and an intelligent use of CSS media queries, the responsive web design senses the appropriate resolution image size and scripting abilities necessary for that particular device or medium. If the user transitions from a laptop to their iPad, the website should automatically respond to the user’s preferences. Web developers using responsive web design will provide the best experience possible to the user in terms of navigability and readability. This advancement would eliminate the need for a different design and development phase for each new gadget on the market.

Keep in mind that responsive web design is not simply reducing font sizes and resizing a picture. Rather, designers and web developers collaborate to determine how to reorganize the elements according to resolution, establish which elements may be unnecessary, and preserve concepts while simplifying structure.

A benefit of responsive web design is that it doesn’t require a lot of learning to use, and it can be a great deal less stressful than learning how to code and design for each device on the market. While it is not the final answer to the continuously- changing mobile world, is can improve the user experience. With responsive web design, we have the ability to create custom experiences for a wider range of users, on a wider range of devices.

Mr. Paquet , senior product manager for Google Voice said that the mobile Web version of Google Voice for the iPhone (which works indeed for any other mobile Web browser that understands HTML5) was not meant as a slap to Apple and AT&T, but as “a way to make sure that people who have been asking to use Google Voice on the iPhone have a way to do so,” he said.

You can access a Web version of the Google Voice on your cell phone at m.google.com/voice.

Some of the scheduled speakers include:
– Christian Heilmann, Developer Evangelist, Mozilla
– John Fallows, CTO and Co-Founder, Kaazing
– Jonas Jacobi, CEO and Co-Founder, Kaazing
– Jan Kleinert, Developer Advocate, Google Chrome
– James Pearce, Senior Director of Developer Relations, Sencha
– Kevin Hoyt, Group Manager Developer Evangelism, Adobe
– Jen Simmons, Host of The Web Ahead on 5by5.tv
– Rob Larsen, Senior Specialist, Platform at Sapient Global Markets

HTML5 Live will take place at the New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenue at World Wise Plaza.

Join executives at Royal Deer Design by registering today. You will be able to connect with the community of designers and web-developers who are dedicated to building cross-platform, cross-browser, interactive web apps for some of today’s leading projects. You’ll gain readily usable information, examples and demos, great giveaways, networking opportunities, and even a few surprises along the way.

According to the post at The Chromium Blog, posted by Google Product Manager Mike Jazayeri, “Specifically, we are supporting the WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs, and will consider adding support for other high-quality open codecs in the future. Though H.264 plays an important role in video, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec technologies.”

He also added the changes would not be immediate, but would take place over the next few months. WebM project team is currently preparing WebM plug-ins for Safari and Internet Explorer 9, neither of which include it themselves. Basically, WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web. H.264 is a next-generation video compression format. It is not open, or royalty free.

Those in support of Google’s decision point to the fact that H.264 licenses cost money, and that large companies like Google are helping out the little guy by choosing this open alternative. Those against Google’s decision contend that it will set the adoption of HTML5 video back even further. Also, for online video publishers, it could create even more confusion and possibly a massive increase in video publishing costs.

What does it mean? Web developers should more likely implement HTML5 into web projects. With that environment, the new standard is going to flourish and new features of HTML5 will became common techniques faster than we expected few months ago.

The latest official versions of browsers are currently: Internet Explorer 8.0, Firefox 3.6, Chrome 7.0, Safari 5.0 and Opera 10.6.

The summary of the repprt shows that:
– 91% of Chrome users run version 7.0.
– 81% of Firefox users run version 3.6.
– 77% of Opera users run version 10.6.
– 71% of Safari users run version 5.0.
– 60% of Internet Explorer users run version 8.0.

Phillippe Le Hegaret from W3C told InfoWorld, “The problem we’re facing right now is there is already a lot of excitement for HTML5, but it’s a little too early to deploy it because we’re running into interoperability issues.” He also mentioned that the HTML5 specification will be “feature-complete by mid-2011,” so Flash will be commonly used on the web for a while.

IE9 looks very slick and fast, it is running HTML5 code, and provides hardware acceleration. However, IE9 doesn?t run on XP, it requires Windows Vista or Windows 7.

An official statement for apiblog.youtube.com:
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about whether or not the HTML5 < video > tag is going to replace Flash Player for video distribution on the web. We’ve been excited about the HTML5 effort and < video > tag for quite a while now, and most YouTube videos can now be played via our HTML5 player. This work has shown us that, while the < video > tag is a big step forward for open standards, the Adobe Flash Platform will continue to play a critical role in video distribution.

It’s important to understand what a site like YouTube needs from the browser in order to provide a good experience for viewers as well as content creators. We need to do more than just point the browser at a video file like the image tag does – there’s a lot more to it than just retrieving and displaying a video. The < video > tag certainly addresses the basic requirements and is making good progress on meeting others, but the < video > tag does not currently meet all the needs of a site like YouTube.

HTML5 allows building new features for Gmail. For example one feature that the Gmail design team already created is the ability to drag files from the desktop into the browser. However, this feature works only with very few browsers, one of them is Chrome.

HTML5 is currently under development as the next major revision of the HTML standard. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Google Gears. Source: Wikipedia