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History API is huge: ability to use real permalinks and back/forward in a dynamic web app without full page reloads. (We all want to get rid of the those damn #

by lukifer 16y ago

History API is huge: ability to use real permalinks and back/forward in a dynamic web app without full page reloads. (We all want to get rid of the those damn #!hashbangs.) WebGL opens up far more possibilities for cross-platform gaming than <canvas> and SVG combined. Some of the others, admittedly, are only useful in edge cases, or are just plain pipe dreams (<device> in particular). But many are already supported by non-IE browsers, and all the other players have clearly broadcasted their intent to keep improving and evolving. Microsoft (AFAIK) has yet to do any such thing.

alanh 16y ago
<device> just a pipe dream? It has “broad support” and exists on some phones already, per ppk's latest weekly roundup. http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2011/02/linkbait_8.html#item18 http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2011/02/linkbait_8.h... (Grandparent: Just because something isn’t in (all) browsers now doesn’t mean it “doesn’t belong” or, less straw-man-ish, that it wouldn’t be useful for some browsers to support; not all browsers need to implement everything, that’s why we have feature detection. But having IE, still the #1 most popular browser, on board really opens doors.)
- lukifer 16y ago
  I wasn't aware that progress was being made; nothing would please me more than device APIs in JavaScript. I don't know of any working implementations in the field, though.