Facebook Evangelizing HTML5

Facebook wants to see more third-party developers create applications using Hypertext Markup Language 5, and will host a discussion about the technology next week.

A week from today, Facebook’s developer relations team will host a presentation on Hypertext Markup Language 5. The event description includes some unabashed evangelism: Develop third-party applications in HTML5 to reap more from the social network’s platform, and vice versa.

HTML5 is very much a work in progress, but Facebook began delivering some functionality with the language this past summer. The social network’s developer blog describes the language in very broad terms:

It’s worth understanding that the term “HTML5” has come to mean more than just the single HTML5 specification, but really represents the next evolution of the web platform and thus dozens of related specifications.

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