HTML5 et le web de demain (HTML5 and the Web of the future)

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The progressive deployment of HTML5 and its many accompanying technologies open the way to using the Web to create applications with advanced features.

The Web of the future is no longer limited in terms of user interface. The deployment of CSS3, the long awaited possibility to use one’s own fonts, the support for <canvas> and <video>, and the arrival of SVG on all the browsers open up a myriad of possibilities.

This also means that the times of clicks and forms as the only possible interactions are now something of the past. APIs that create a stronger integration with the user’s device — geolocation, accelerometer —, or with the user’s data — calendar, contacts list —, that were only available to native applications are now being added to the Web of the future, where mobile is guaranteed to play a big role.

The availability of running Web applications under a local context, either as widgets or as offline applications, will remove the last differences between today’s native applications and tomorrow’s Web apps, while keeping a strong stance on the user’s security and privacy.

We are offering to review these various changes that will turn a number of today’s Web developers into tomorrow’s application developers.