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Ask HN: What's an HTML5 app?

1 points by adyus ↗ HN
Given the recent Microsoft announcement and a couple of HN submissions, I've seen the term HTML5 app being thrown around.

Can someone enlighten me as to what an HTML5 app is?

I was under the assumption that HTML5 could not, by itself, "do" anything except display content and offer nice features such as localStorage and native audio/video playing in browsers.

Is an app an HTML5 app simply because it makes use of HTML5 technologies?

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daleharvey
probably the most accurate definition is "something that might have previously been implemented as a desktop app or in flash, but is mostly in html/css/js"

html is now versionless, html5 is a nice marketing term that we can just use to talk about "new cool shiny toys", dont worry about a strict definition

adyus
Good to know it's only a buzzword. For a second I thought I missed something awesome that HTML5 could do...
dazzer
"Is an app an HTML5 app simply because it makes use of HTML5 technologies?"

Yes.