HTML5 has often promised to offer the promised land where web apps will replace all those downloads we all make to our devices. However, it always seems to be coming in the future with the odd exciting demo on a web site somewhere to whet our appetites.
In our own work in interactive narrative at the Narrative and Interactive Media group at Goldmiths we have started experimenting with HTML5/JavaScript to help assemble our complex interactive video stories in a way that was hard to achieve with previous web implementations, and it is proving to be powerful.
And, interestingly, it seems that Microsoft are beginning to agree that there's a future in it, enough to push it within their own ecosystem.
This video shows a Microsoft sponsored version of Contre Jour running in the browser. The interesting thing to see is how the aspects of the touch interface are all there, present and correct and functioning smoothly.
Ok. I agree it's a shame that it only runs properly in the soon to be released IE10 however, I think fair play to Microsoft for developing interactive media that works so well through the browser. You could be forgiven for thinking that this a locally downloaded application.
It used to be a common thread of thinking that the downloading app economy would soon be sacrificed to the onslaught of web apps. Well, with Microsoft on,board who knows, it might just happen. I for one am looking forward to the release of the Surface.
In our own work in interactive narrative at the Narrative and Interactive Media group at Goldmiths we have started experimenting with HTML5/JavaScript to help assemble our complex interactive video stories in a way that was hard to achieve with previous web implementations, and it is proving to be powerful.
And, interestingly, it seems that Microsoft are beginning to agree that there's a future in it, enough to push it within their own ecosystem.
This video shows a Microsoft sponsored version of Contre Jour running in the browser. The interesting thing to see is how the aspects of the touch interface are all there, present and correct and functioning smoothly.
Ok. I agree it's a shame that it only runs properly in the soon to be released IE10 however, I think fair play to Microsoft for developing interactive media that works so well through the browser. You could be forgiven for thinking that this a locally downloaded application.
It used to be a common thread of thinking that the downloading app economy would soon be sacrificed to the onslaught of web apps. Well, with Microsoft on,board who knows, it might just happen. I for one am looking forward to the release of the Surface.
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