{"id":1926,"date":"2010-10-29T16:32:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T20:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/analystik.ca\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2017-02-08T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T15:51:29","slug":"html-5-custom-business-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analystik.ca\/blogue\/language\/en\/html-5-custom-business-application\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML 5: custom business application or off-the-shelf software?"},"content":{"rendered":"

hAs we mentioned in our previous post, it\u2019s clear that, mostly for economic reasons, companies want applications that are \u00ab\u00a0ready-to-mobilize\u00a0\u00bb. The demand is there: 75%<\/strong> use standard applications<\/em> and 20%<\/strong>, custom business applications<\/em>. Further, we continued on to show that developers see positive opportunities for both options.\u00a0Off-the-shelf as well as custom-made business applications…<\/em><\/p>\n

One in the hand, is better than two in the bush<\/h3>\n

Recently however, a senior mobile developer confided to me that he had seriously considered dropping some mobile development platforms. Because customers were just not ready to absorb the costs of cross-platform development. Instead, in order to save money these clients were asking him to select THE platform (or sometimes two) with the greatest reach and potential, to evaluate the costs for it and to eliminate the others! While this is understandable, it\u2019s not necessarily an elegant solution and very often proves problematic because there are few companies or homogeneous target audiences that use only one model of mobile device, let alone a single OS.<\/p>\n

Add to that, the clear boundary between applications intended for the general public and those optimized for professional use. Without question however, if you deploy for the general public you must be multiplatform.<\/p>\n

And to continue this line of thought, our developer began to fantasize about a mobile development environment; one without need of adaptation per platform, well\u2026 almost. One thing leads to another and our analysis brings us directly to the many promises of HTML 5<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

HTML 5, a name that says\u2026 relief<\/h3>\n

One of the promises, some would say fantasy, of HTML 5<\/strong> is to progress the web towards a new standard, the first in 13 years. So in order to solve all the problems, and there are many, we\u2019re talking about integrating new semantic tags to better manage the display of sites, integration of new content types such as HD\/2D\/3D audio and video, and most importantly, \u201cto demonstrate its relevance as a development platform in the face of two major opponents\u201d, <\/em>he commented. \u201cOn the desktop, proprietary technologies such as Flash plugins<\/a> and to a lesser extent, Silverlight<\/a>, and on mobiles, we\u2019re talking native apps distributed via the app stores.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I recommend this excellent post on ZDNet.fr<\/a><\/strong> about the issues and promises of the famous HTML 5<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

(Available in French only<\/em>)<\/p>\n