[FLOW3-general] HTML5 - The Future of web based applications

[Thomas Allmer]

On 03.07.2010 20:39, Sebastian Michaelsen wrote:
> IMHO you should consider to use HTML5 as Doctype for the TYPO3 Backend.

yeah, why not...

> [...]
>
> After that you'll have the option to use HTML5 APIs instead of ExtJS in
> some places. Why would you want that?
>
> Let's look at an example. ExtJS offers a storing API to store and get
> client side data. This is only neccessary for backwards compatibility to
> old browsers because HTML5 has several APIs of storing Data at the
> client. It's likely that the HTML5 Implementation in your browser is
> more robust, secure and has a better performance.

I would say that's exactly the reason to still use ExtJS... it gives the 
power to store stuff... and how it does that doesn't matter to us... 
internally it can use HTML5 storage possibilities (if available) or 
native js...

> So the point is: You don't have to use HTML5, but with an HTML5 Doctype
> you have _the option_ to replace ExtJS parts with HTML5 in the future if
> it fits well.

imho... I don't want to manually choose or differentiate between various 
saving options... that's the job of a framework...
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