Friday, March 05, 2010

HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9

So you may have been reading about HTML5. If you don't know what it is or how it affects you as a developer, but it's basically HTML, CSS, DHTML XHTML and pretty much every ML you can think of, rolled into one and dubbed 'HTML5' - it's goinf to bring a lot of ease to cross-browser and cross-platform development of web-apps in the near futre.

Internet Explorer 9 is just around the corner, and whilst I have been using Google Chrome for ages now, it's interesting to read about Microsoft's development of Direct2D, which will use the GPU to render vector graphics in the browser for the first time, making things like Google Maps scroll smoothly.

Further Reading:

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/WKSP01 -