HTML5 Browsers Gain Influence as Application Integration Pendulum Swings
May 31, 2012—“HTML5 skills are going to become super important,” said panelist Michael Mullany, CEO with HTML5 consultancy and application framework maker Sencha, Redwood, Calif. But the HTML5, or JavaScript, developer may have to become more enterprise savvy. “You have to think of your browser as your client and have clean SOAs on the backend,” he said. It may prove challenging finding the JavaScript developers with the skills needed to do that. “People have done JavaScript, but finding people that have done highly scalable JavaScript is less common,” he said.