In these days 10 years ago I learned to write my first lines of html. At that time it was quite a thing that you could have images on a web page! And tables were a fundamental new feature.<\/p>\n
Since then the html-driven internet has swept over the world in total victory. Billions of websites all build on the fundamentals of HTML bare witness to this.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless it’s going to change. The future of the internet is not driven by HTML.<\/p>\n
Think for yourself: What’s happening on the internet these days? What are the new services people want to use? I’ll tell you some of them: it’s music, videos and gaming. It’s chat and internet telephony.<\/p>\n
So what do you do, if you want to use music on the web? How do you play games? How do you chat and how do you call someone? Well, the most popular music service these days is iTunes. The most popular game right now is called World of Warcraft. The most popular chat programs are Microsoft and AOL Messengers. And the most popular IP telephony is Skype. All very different programs that have one thing in common: they’re not HTML-based.<\/p>\n
On the contrary: they’re all applications you have to download and install on your computer. They’re applications, not web-pages. And there’s one good reason why: it serves the purposes of the programs better – and its possible: both computers and bandwidth allow it these days.<\/p>\n
And there’s yet more to come. The richer the content and the more complex the features of services – the more non-HTML they’ll be.<\/p>\n
Sure HTML will still be around in 5 years from now. HTML (extended to DHTML, XML and the like) have several extremely nice things to them. For making vast amounts of text based information available in a standardized format it’s king – put an HTML-engine to your database, and you’re able to publish millions of pages in no time.<\/p>\n
Also, the HTML-standard is the building block, one of the essentials, of the “open” internet. The internet, that lets people around the world publish whatever is on their minds with free and easy to use tools. The internet you see in blogs (like this one), on photosharing sites like Flickr and on Wikis.
\nBut the next years will give us other and new dimensions to the internet. Richer media. More complex services. And these will follow the footsteps of iTunes and Skype. HTML will prevail – but only as a giant stepped back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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