A survey of 1,200 developers by Evans Data has confirmed what many of us already know: Developers are hopping onto the HTML5 bandwagon. Conducted twice a year, the Evans Data Global Development Survey found that three-quarters of those polled either already use or plan to make use of HTML5 in app development.

More telling perhaps is the finding that the level of interest in HTM5 is an average of about 20 percent higher than frameworks such as Flash or Silverlight.

Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data, said in a statement: "There isn't any question about the adoption of HTML5, it's already the de facto standard." It is probably due to this realization that vendors have worked hard to incorporate HTML5 support into their flagship products and development environments. As reported by eWeek, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has embraced the markup language in Internet Explorer and the company's upcoming Windows 8 operating system.

Moreover, Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) announced in November that it will be terminating the development of Mobile Flash in order to focus on HTML5. Speculation about whether Microsoft would do the same with Silverlight have arisen in the wake of Adobe's surprise pronouncement. For now, for those still not convinced about what HTML5 has to offer, ReadWriteWeb's Dan Rowinski has written about how hybrid HTML5 apps are less costly to develop compared to native development.

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- check out this article at The Inquirer
- check out this article at eWeek

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