Not really backwards but more like the wrong direction. For me HTML is all about displaying content. HTML then takes the form of an application when you can edit or interact with said content.
If we could start from scratch and build a set of tools for making web applications would they look like HTML and JavaScript? Probably not.
A lot of this looks great (new UI controls and css advancements in particular), but the multimedia elements seem very unpolished and as mentioned inefficient. The canvas demo even breaks the entire presentation if you scale the images larger than the canvas.
On simple internal projects for my company I often joke about 'post backs 4 life!' whenever someone mentions using Ajax or Flash for the UI. "Let's make it HTML5!" gives me that same sinking feeling.
If we could start from scratch and build a set of tools for making web applications would they look like HTML and JavaScript? Probably not.
A lot of this looks great (new UI controls and css advancements in particular), but the multimedia elements seem very unpolished and as mentioned inefficient. The canvas demo even breaks the entire presentation if you scale the images larger than the canvas.
On simple internal projects for my company I often joke about 'post backs 4 life!' whenever someone mentions using Ajax or Flash for the UI. "Let's make it HTML5!" gives me that same sinking feeling.