A nice article on making your html5 apps fly…
#html5 #development #performance
Tag: html5
It looks like Netflix really moves in all the right directions
This is exactly what streaming needs. Hopefully Chrome and Firefox will also hurry up and implement Premium Video Extensions, but even more than that, let's hope that other streaming service providers will follow this move and implement similar HTML5 players.
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Netflix switches from Silverlight to HTML5 in Windows 8.1, reduces CPU usage dramatically | ExtremeTech
With the release of Windows 8.1 Preview, Netflix now supports streaming over HTML5 instead of Microsoft’s proprietary Silverlight plug-in. The caveat is that only Internet Explorer 11, which is bundled with Windows 8.1, supports the necessary HTML5 extensions; if you’re a Firefox or Chrome user, you’ll continue to use the Silverlight plug-in. In our initial testing, the switch to HTML5 sees a massive reduction in CPU usage — about one third of S…
Interesting reasoning behind moving LinkedIn apps back to native instead of HTML5
It's not actually the performance issue…
Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 & went native for its mobile apps
“There are a few things that are critically missing. One is tooling support. The second is operability. Because those two things don’t exist, people are falling back to native. It’s not that HTML5 ……
Dropbox-based backend for your HTML5 apps
Now that sounds like a terrific idea, lets see if it actually works…
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A serverless, scalable backend for your HTML5 app