HTML5 Powers Marvel Entertainment’s New Web App
Making use of HTML5, Marvels Entertainment's new web app is to transform the Google Chrome web browser into a comic book reader. This experience will be comparable to the one offered by iPad in early 2010.
HTML5 is the latest major revision of the HTML standard, used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. Employing HTML5, the new web app will offer about 1,600 comics to online readers for a subscription of USD 2 per issue. The new web app came from the pursuit of making high-definition digital Marvel comics available to users anytime and anywhere, says Marvel's Ira Rubenstein.
The Marvel Comics on the Chrome app using HTML5 is definitely giving reading a boost, but some using the iPad app feel that it is not as trendy as flipping through a comic using a touch screen.
