Take a walk around Tempworks and you’ll encounter HTML5 with its bedfellows CSS3 and jQuery a focal point of many conversations.
You can see that in the recent posts here and here about our new customer service survey system. You can see it in our new WebCenter6 portal suite. And also in our new online applicant portal dozens of our clients have adopted and already put online.
You can also see it in our developer blogs. I really like the direction Andy Cohen is taking his – he offers that unique combination of great writing AND developer content. His recent post on inline editing shows just how hard we are working to make delightful, sustainable user interfaces.
Internet platforms continue to evolve at an alarming rate and many players from Microsoft to Apple to others on down are trying to seize the open HTML5 platform with proprietary libraries, plugins, and developer tools that can both save you time and lead you down a seductive road of ruinous dependence.
At the HTML5 conference this week in Santa Clara, we’ll be there getting the latest on browser security and how HTML5 will play out in mobile.
If you’re a business person thinking all this is fun and games for developers, then check out this piece of news out this weekend. If SAP ponying up some $3 billion for SuccessFactors, a money-losing company whose claim to fame hardly extends beyond its slick HTML5 interface, then what further evidence could there be that this is serious stuff?
