From the graphs below one can see that HTML5 is a trending topic because it was searched 97% more since 2009 as shown in the Google trends graph. Also, more websites are using the HTML5 format to develop their websites.
Some researchers are of the opinion that IT resembles a fashion industry. Some of the definitions of Fashion IS trends are:
· Resembles upswings and downswings (Gill and Bhattacherjee, 2009)
· Offer unworkable “solutions” to a complex environment (Currie, 1999)
· “transitory collective belief that an information technology is new, efficient and at the forefront of practice” (Wang, 2010)
· “a relatively transitory collective belief, disseminated by management fashion setters, that a management technique leads to rational management progress” (Abrahamson, 1996)
What do you think? Is HTML5 just another unworkable solution to a complex environment?
Google HTML5 Trend
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The HTML5 is becoming very common, used on
over 35% of pages
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XHTML 1.0 has dropped from 60%, of pages in
2008, to around 40% of web pages
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HTML 4.01 has dropped from 20%, of pages in
2008, to fewer than 10% of pages
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The total sample size is over 5 million pages,
with around 300,000 new pages scanned a month
References
Abrahamson, E. (1996) Management
fashion. Academy of Management Review, 21, 254–85.
Currie, W. L. (1999). Revisiting Management Innovation and Change
Programmes: Strategic Vision or Tunnel Vision?. Omega , 27(6),647-660.
Gill, G., and Bhattacherjee, A. (2009). Fashion waves versus informing:
response to Baskerville and Myers. MIS Quarterly, 33(4), 667.
Powermapper. HTML Version Statistics. http://try.powermapper.com/Stats/HtmlVersions.
Retrieved 29 September 2013.
Wang, P. (2010). Chasing the hottest IT: effects of information
technology fashion on organizations. MIS quarterly, 34(1), 63-85.
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