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by assimpleaspossi 970 days ago
As in most cases, "HTML5" has little to do with this and it's all javascript.
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fenomas 970 days ago
TFA is old enough that the "HTML5" here means "as opposed to Flash".
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sumtechguy 970 days ago
the only downside to flash going away was zombo.com no longer works correctly.
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FpUser 970 days ago
You scared me for a sec. Life is dull without that site. I did check right away and it does work. Phew ;)
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sumtechguy 969 days ago
RIP autoplay...
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marban 970 days ago
Then it'd be DHTML
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fenomas 969 days ago
Newp. DHTML as a term is way older, and referred to earlier things.
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ioseph 970 days ago
Browser audio support came about with HTML5, the js APIs used for this sort of thing were to support the <audio/>
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Cthulhu_ 970 days ago
It's an okay catch-all term for "browser technology from after 2010" I suppose, like how DHTML was a catch-all for HTML + JS and AJAX for fetching things from JS.
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swingingFlyFish 966 days ago
HTML means: HTML, CSS and Javascript so...
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