HTML5 is the hot topic nowadays. Everyone from Apple to Google and everyone else in between have shown their support for the standard. Word has it that HTML5 is the Adobe Flash-killer. It seems that the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C] — which is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web — doesn’t agree. If anything, the W3C doesn’t think that HTML5 is “ready for production yet.”
“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, ” said W3C Interaction Domain Leader Philippe Le Hégaret. “The real problem is can we make [HTML5] work across browsers and at the moment, that is not the case,” he continued.
“I don’t think [HTML5 is] ready for production yet,” he concluded.
The problem with HTML5 appears to be that it currently lacks a video codec. In addition, digital rights management [DRM] is also not supported in HTML5, which obviously makes a problem for various companies.
According to Le Hégaret, HTML5 is not expected to really take off until mid 2011. More importantly, he believes that it will take years before HTML5 is fully adopted across the web. “We’re not going to retire Flash anytime soon,” he went on to say.
via InfoWorld