Future Trends: Top 10 HTML5 Websites & Resources
August 31, 2011 § Leave a Comment
For some of us, HTML5 is a big deal. For most of us, when we hear anything with HTML in it we go, “huh?” Well, I don’t blame you. If you’re doing your job and your nose has been to the proverbial grindstone, you shouldn’t know anything about it. That’s our job here at In10sity!
HTML5, as briefly mentioned in this previous article, is the next evolution of HTML or “Hypertext Mark-up Language” which has been used on every webpage since the dawn of the Internet. Over time, HTML has expanded to include derivatives and add-ons such as XHTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, and Flash. What was once a simple language used to catalog and search academic and scientific documents has turned into somewhat of a programming language. Naturally, HTML and its cousins are starting to buckle under the weight and demands of our increasingly e-commerce driven mobile universe we live in. As the lady in the infomercial says, “There’s got to be a better way!”
Beginning of the End of the Personal Computer?
August 30, 2011 § Leave a Comment
It’s hard to believe I’m writing this article as I never thought I would see the day when the PC would become the senior citizen of our hardware community. Some PCs are enjoying their golden years such as the hip granddad known as the Apple Macintosh (he prefers being called “Mac”). He has such cute grandkids, too: iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Other PCs aren’t enjoying their twilight years as much. Old Hewlett-Packard (“HP” thank you very much) isn’t doing so well considering two of his grandkids, the rambunctious TouchPad and his little sister, the Pre smartphone, just got killed. Things are so sad with HP that he is considering suicide.
Well, suicide might be a little dramatic, but HP has been considering spinning off its PC division in light of declining profits.
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