One of the most important things I find in html 5 is not mentioned very often is the media capture API[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/ that allows you to add video and audio as input. Combined with the audio and video tags will let us implement video/audio chat features without using flash.
Not only that, but it can also bring speech to text to the web[2], potentially add motion gestures for navigation, games, etc. Imo this is the last piece of the puzzle (along with websockets, bytebuffers, etc) to making the browser a full OS from a user's perspective.
[1] I would have said the devices tag, but that has recently been dropped from the html5 standard. Ericson labs had some really great demos of it on a modified webkit engine)http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/, too bad.
[2] see x-webkit-speech attribute of the input tag for chrome's implementation
Not only that, but it can also bring speech to text to the web[2], potentially add motion gestures for navigation, games, etc. Imo this is the last piece of the puzzle (along with websockets, bytebuffers, etc) to making the browser a full OS from a user's perspective.
[1] I would have said the devices tag, but that has recently been dropped from the html5 standard. Ericson labs had some really great demos of it on a modified webkit engine)http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/, too bad. [2] see x-webkit-speech attribute of the input tag for chrome's implementation