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It would be useful to identify the primary driver for this increase in demand for HTML5. Is it iPad/iPhone compatibility? Buzzword compliance? How many clients
by gr366 16y ago
It would be useful to identify the primary driver for this increase in demand for HTML5. Is it iPad/iPhone compatibility? Buzzword compliance? How many clients understand what they're getting when they hire someone with this skillset? And have we defined what the HTML5 skillset really entails?
Can I say I am an HTML5 developer because I know to change the DOCTYPE and wrap items in <header>, <section> and <article> tags? Or should the expectation be the ability to produce Flash-like entertainment-oriented sites with audio, video & canvas animation, or web apps that make use of local storage and offline capabilities? It's a pretty wide range of skills.
- shakes 16y agoMy gut feeling is a lot of it is buzzword compliance. More and more I'm finding clients who believe that their site isn't going to work on iPad/iPhone unless it's HTML5. Even when we bring up their site on our iPad and show them that it looks great they still say "but I need it to be in HTML5!!!".
- code_duck 16y agoYes, you can say you're an expert in DHTML - no, wait Ajax - Oh, I mean Web 2.0, sorry. Oops! HTML 5, of course.
- abrudtkuhl 16y agoIt's a little of both I'd say... You'd say you are an HTML5 developer in the same way you'd say you are an XHTML developer. In the end it will get lumped into the same category that AJAX, DHTML, etc have been -> web developer.