Hi Dmitry,

folks often talk about HTML5 as though it were a complete widget set. It is not. A complete widget set involves some aspects of HTML5 at times, but is more about CSS3 and Javascript than anything else. Check out Cappuccino, Google Web Toolkit, and ActiveWidgets for 3 examples. In each case you will see that there are complex objects, being rendered using various tricks (e.g., sticking an entire "form" as a DOM structure directly onto a parent DOM member, so that the browser's rendering engine renders everything at once -- this was introduced in GWT 2.x, and is the chief way of getting native control display speed on devices).

IOW: Microsoft will need to supply these widgets, and they will need to be optimzed in the way that the 3 I have mentioned above (and there are many others, e.g., the Dojo Toolkit) have been optimized.

If they tie that to XAML, with design in Blend, then they have become interesting. Support for HTML5 itself is not exciting, nor even interesting, really, at least for business app development.

Hank

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>When you are saying to go with web-based HTML 5 app, can you use ASP.NET (from VS.NET) and use HTML5 with it? Or do you mean to write "everything" in HTML 5? The reason I am asking is I have an ASP.NET application that works well. But I would like it to be "compatible" with iPad and I guess HTML 5 is the way to go. But I am not sure where to start. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
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>>Then you got the wrong vibe. A customer recently asked me about creating a new app in Silverlight. My advice was to go with a web-based HTML 5 app because it will work on the iPad. Silverlight will never run there.
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>>My point was that in the enterprise business world, Windows is still king and I don't see that changing in the near future.
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