De zoveelste 'fase-verschuiving' op het web

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Gezichtsherkenning in de nieuwe web-standaard Html-5?
En dan ook nog daarbij horende gegevens opzoeken?

Scary!

Groet / Cees

http://www.slate.com/id/2221756/
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The best thing about the new Firefox is that it gives us a peek at the
Internet of tomorrow. Since 2007, the World Wide Web Consortium, the
international standards body that sets common technical definitions for
the Web, has been working on HTML 5, an update to the coding language that
defines every page you visit online. Although the consortium has yet to
publish its final specifications for the new standard, many browser
companies have been incorporating features of the language in their latest
releases. Firefox 3.5 offers the best implementation of the standard—and
because it's the second-most-popular Web browser in the world, the new
release is sure to prompt Web designers to create pages tailored to the
Web's new language. In other words, Firefox isn't just an upgrade for your
computer; it could well prompt a re-engineering of the Web itself.

The best way to appreciate what HTML 5 can do is to install the new
Firefox and run the collection of demos put together by Paul Rouget,
Mozilla's European evangelist and a Web developer extraordinaire. Rouget's
pages show off one particular aspect of the new language—its facility with
video, which has always been a second-class citizen on the Web. Today,
most of the clips you encounter online require plug-ins that you have to
install alongside your browser; when you go to YouTube, for instance, your
browser calls on Adobe Flash, the platform that actually knows how to play
the clip.

HTML 5 will alter this process. Firefox 3.5 allows designers to add videos
that require no third-party plug-ins; the clips, which can be coded in the
open-standard Ogg format, are processed by the browser itself. This allows
videos to become just as interactive as every other part of a page: You
can rotate a video while it's playing, have a clip show up in a circular
frame rather than a square one, or have a video respond to data pulled in
from other parts of the Web.

In this demo, for instance, the Web page studies the people who are
walking into the camera's frame; when it spots someone it recognizes, it
goes off to search for that person's Twitter status, and then superimposes
the text in a bubble in the video above the person's head. Sure, that demo
may not sound very useful—but it's just the beginning. Web developers have
a habit of integrating new capabilities in innovative ways, and over the
next couple years, as more people migrate to next-generation browsers, you
can expect many of your favorite pages to begin to take advantage of these
technologies.
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