Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Helpful Harry Newsgroups: comp.databases.filemaker Subject: Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:40:53 +1300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 22 Message-ID: <111220130940539896%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> References: <101220131831598218%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bL76ywZbtO+Np+5dTvuMDQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Thoth/1.5.4 (Carbon/OS X) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.filemaker:1571 In article , Howard Schlossberg wrote: > On 12/9/2013 10:50 PM, Martin Ԥrautmann wrote:> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 > > What's so special about HTML5? > > There is a good reason that EVERYONE is adopting HTML5 over the old > HTML: it is capable of providing MUCH more FUNCTIONALITY, which allows > it to constantly communicate with the server, to provide instant > validation errors or script triggers upon leaving a field, to update > changed data without a screen refresh, etc. One of the main selling points of HTML5 in general (not necessarily for FileMaker) is the animation, etc. it can do which means finally getting rid of the useless, buggy, resource hog called Adobe Flash. Apple refusing to allow Flash on iOS devices and not installing it on their Mac computers is adding to the push to get rid of Flash. Due to it's infestation of the Internet, that will take a while, but many places, including ones like YouTube, are moving to HTML5 already. Helpful Harry :o)