HTML5 and Web Services – Get the Right “A” in your SOA « mhano.com. For a small inkling of what HTML5 can mean, I strongly recommend you check-out slides.html5rocks.com (in google chrome or safari).
The days of screens in HTML applications being pages generated by servers containing screen layout mark-up and data are nearly over, whether it’s your google/bing search results or social networking news feed, all this is happening over JSON web services. While the UI control industry is still some way away from having polished products to support building these applications cheaply, there have been some interesting recent developments. The move to HTML5 based UI brings with it some great new opportunities, and of course, just as many risks and challenges. SOA UI Controls from ComponentArt and Telerik Recently two of the biggest control vendors for asp.net web app controls have added some interesting client side service/data-binding. 1) ComponentArt have released a suite of Silverlight and ASP.net “AJAX” (JSON) controls that data bind on the client side.
HTML5 Presentation. In March 1936, an unusual confluence of forces occurred in Santa Clara County.
A long cold winter delayed the blossoming of the millions of cherry, apricot, peach, and prune plum trees covering hundreds of square miles of the Valley floor. Then, unlike many years, the rains that followed were light and too early to knock the blossoms from their branches. Instead, by the billions, they all burst open at once. Seemingly overnight, the ocean of green that was the Valley turned into a low, soft, dizzyingly perfumed cloud of pink and white. Uncounted bees and yellow jackets, newly born, raced out of their hives and holes, overwhelmed by this impossible banquet.
Then came the wind. It roared off the Pacific Ocean, through the nearly uninhabited passes of the Santa Cruz Mountains and then, flattening out, poured down into the great alluvial plains of the Valley. Creating mobile Web applications with HTML 5, Part 1: Combine HTML 5, geolocation APIs, and Web services to create mobile mashups. Creating mobile Web applications with HTML 5, Part 1 Find and track location coordinates to use in various Web services Michael GalpinPublished on May 06, 2010/Updated: June 29, 2010 25 May 2010: Added links to Part 2 of this series in About this series, Summary, and Resources sections. 02 Jun 2010: Added links to Part 3 of this series in About this series, Summary, and Resources sections. 08 Jun 2010: Added links to Part 4 of this series in About this series, Summary, and Resources sections. 29 Jun 2010: Added links to Part 5 of this series in About this series, Summary, and Resources sections.
About this series HTML 5 is a very hyped technology, but with good reason. Prerequisites Frequently used acronyms API: Application Programming InterfaceCSS: Cascading stylesheetGPS: Global Positioning SystemHTML: Hypertext Markup LanguageJSONP: JSON with paddingSDK: Software Developer KitUI: User InterfaceW3C: World Wide Web Consortium The basics: Getting a fix.