webmonkey.com — Google continues to use HTML5 to push its web apps into the future. The latest bit of HTML5 to feel Google?s love is drag-and-drop support, which is now a standard part of Gmail. If you?re using Google Chrome 4 or Firefox 3.6, you can now simply drag a file from your desktop onto a message window and Gmail will automatically attach the file.
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me1000Apr 17, 2010
HTML5 is such a buzz word today! Anyone that has actually tried to make use of the drag and drop API knows it's total crap to deal with (the legacy IE background really shows). Abstraction layers are necessary for wide scale adoption! Though, I'm sure Google has already abstracted it through GWT.
culytApr 18, 2010
HTML5 is just a standard, standards don't specify how to implement them.With that said, most browsers will likely add hardware acceleration, IE9 is supposed to be getting it. Firefox is due to get it in 3.7 I believe (at least Direct2D acceleration, maybe it already has acceleration via Cairo). I think Chrome has it already. Dunno what Opera/Safari are doing.
Closed AccountApr 18, 2010
GMAIL SLOW DOWN.... Haven't you heard?<a class="user" href="http://ishtml5readyyet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ishtml5readyyet.com/</a>Glad to see they're moving forward... now if Google would just buy H.264 and licence it to Mozilla for free so we can kill flash.
darkshroudApr 18, 2010
In my experience if people haven't made the switch by now they won't any time soon. Because they just don't give a damn to do so.
cristianbamApr 18, 2010
like the iPhone, because of Android. Can I get a woot woot!!
mrbitchApr 18, 2010
RE: " .. Flash for a living has got at least 5 years before their career might be endangered. The internet moves excruciatingly slowly .. "Maybe slow for the desktop world, but internet on mobile devices is moving very fast indeed.Flash is lucky to survive another 12 months, and Adobe rushing their Flash beta releases kind of proves Adobe knows this too.
mrbitchApr 20, 2010
@ Jeremy, RE: " .. The internet isn't going to magically change because ONE company decides not to let Flash on their devices."Where did you get the idea that only one company is not running Flash on their mobile devices?Blackberry, Android, Nokia Symbian, iPhone, upcoming Windows Phone 7.None of these mobile device / OS combinations currently run Flash.What did you mean by ONE company?
mrbitchApr 26, 2010
@ Antixian, RE: " .. nearly all of mobile handset makers os's support flash players. the sore thumb is apple."Give me ONE mobile handset manufacturer OS that supports Flash (and no, Flash Lite is not Flash).I will help you out, since you will find none. There are ZERO mobile devices on the market that support Flash, so what's your beef with Apple?
mrbitchApr 30, 2010
@ Jeremy, RE : ".. but not the Flash development environment.. "No, if it's generating HTML5 then it's a HTML5 IDE, and not a Flash IDE. In other words, Flash is dead.