{"id":3315,"date":"2012-10-19T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2012-10-19T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T15:00:20","slug":"html5-early-adopters-burnt-by-a-technology-thats-not-yet-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/html5-early-adopters-burnt-by-a-technology-thats-not-yet-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML5: Early Adopters Burnt by a Technology that's not yet Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2012 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies<\/a> chart shows HTML5 as nearing it’s peak of hype and it is marked as becoming a mature technology over the next 5-10 years. \u00a0Many businesses and developers not wanting to be left behind the technology have jumped aboard the HTML5 bandwagon. \u00a0Unfortunately, their timing may be a bit early.<\/p>\n

The problem is that while most people believe that long term HTML5 will be the de facto technology for browsers, the fact is that today’s HTML5 environment, particularly on mobile devices, is just not there yet. \u00a0HTML5 as a formal standard is still years away. \u00a0Currently bits and pieces of it are available across different browsers. Gartner expects<\/a> that sometime in 2014 that HTML5 will reach the stage of ‘recommendation status<\/a>‘ by the world wide web consortium (W3C).<\/p>\n

In September, Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> said<\/a> that “The biggest mistake Facebook made as a company is betting on HTML5 over native… \u00a0We burned two years. That’s really painful. Probably we will look back saying that is one of the biggest mistakes if not the biggest strategic mistake that we made. But we’re coming out of that now…\u00a0 It’s not that HTML5 is bad. I’m actually, long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us… We just never were able to get the quality we wanted [from the HTML5 apps we were building]…”<\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9e James<\/a>,\u00a0Intel senior vice president, said that<\/a> “We all agree it’s [HTML5] been very over-hyped… \u00a0We believe its a real solution for where users want to go, and we believe users will demand we go there as an industry.” \u00a0James also said that their numbers show that 40 percent of app developers are using HTML5 now and another 40 percent say that they’re planning on using HTML5 in the near future too.<\/p>\n

But how happy have those developers been with HTML5? \u00a0A recent survey by Appcelerator and IDC<\/a> finds that mobile developers who have tried HTML5 aren’t pushing many ‘Like’ buttons when it comes to the technology. \u00a0The report found that a majority of developers give HTML5 low scores. \u00a0Developers are dissatisfied with experience, performance, monetization, fragmentation, distribution control, timeliness of updates, and security.<\/p>\n

Facebook is not the only business that has had to do an about face on their HTML5 strategy. \u00a0Philipp Moeser<\/a>, co-founder of\u00a0German Social Gaming company Wooga, said that<\/a> “The mobile app market is a billion dollar business that HTML5 could significantly disrupt. \u00a0It has the potential to be a complete game changer, but the technology is not there yet.”<\/p>\n

Particularly because of poor performance, developers are opting instead to primarily build their apps using native technology rather than HTML5. \u00a0Many developers are trying to hedge their bets by creating hybrid mobile apps that use some amount of HTML5 along with high-performing native technology. \u00a0 It’s likely that most developers will go the route of pure native or hybrid HTML5 apps over the next few years until HTML5 becomes more mature.<\/p>\n

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The 2012 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies chart shows HTML5 as nearing it’s peak of hype and it is marked as becoming a mature technology over the next 5-10 years. \u00a0Many businesses and developers not wanting to be left…<\/span><\/p>\n

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