Sean Walther’s Blog

Apple’s iPad / iPhone HTML5 Bet: HTML5 Drawing App Proves Capabilities

Recently I’ve been posting on HTML5 versus Flash.  Many people who are not familiar with HTML5 may not know exactly the amount of power that has been provided with the new spec.  HTML 4 was nice, and a big upgrade, but I believe HTML 5 will be an even larger upgrade over HTML4.

The reason we are talking about HTML5, is Apple seems to be placing their bets on it.  Apple continues to refuse to have Flash running on their controlled devices (iPhone, iPad, etc) and seems to be pushing for HTML5 to take over.

We are slowly having to rethink the capabilities of the “HTML” platform that we have grown to know over the past 15 years. › Continue reading

Tags: Apple, Flash, HTML, HTML5, iPad, iPhone, Javascript, MugTug, Sketchpad

Speed Up Google Analytics: Use Async

Saw a great post at High Performance Web Sites blog, Google Analytics goes async.  The author is Steve Souders, who works at Google on web performance.  So this is from the horses mouth.

Think about it, why would you care when the Google Analytics code is loaded?  All it does is capture data, as long as Google gets it — it may as well go out at midnight.  The new code enables an “async” request in HTML5. › Continue reading

Tags: Async, Asynchronous, Google, Google Analytics, Google Gears, HTML 5, HTML5, Steve Souders