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HTML5: Poised to Give “Rich” Rivals a Run for Their Money

Native Web applications may enable cool functionality, but it comes at a high cost: Threatening the open Web with irrelevance and perpetuating vendor lock in. Fortunately, some big names are on board with HTML5, from Adobe with its Edge animation tool to Microsoft announcing that Windows 8’s development platform is based on HTML5 and JavaScript. (S3330811)