World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) HTML 5 is the wave of the future even though it is still a work in progress. It is designed to replace the HTML 4.01 standard although HTML 5 is backwards compatible.

On Windows, Apple's Safari browser doesn't play HTML 5 content. But the Google Chrome browser in Windows played Flash 10.1 content with 58 percent more efficiency than HTML5.

It’s like the difference between running and jogging. They’re similar but different, each with advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes either will do, but when it counts, ...

His main concern today is how you developers can combine HTML5 with native performance. By the end of the panel, there definitely didn’t seem to be a clear winner between HTML5 and native apps.