最近在Inside Social的用户发帖中，HTML5社交游戏开发公司Moblyng的首席执行官Stewart Putney提出，“HTML5是社交游戏发展的未来”，尤其是针对智能手机而言。他的这一看法主要是因为基本所有现存的手机或浏览器都支持或即将支持这个HTML5网络开发平台。同时，Putney推测近来Zynga公司在德国的发展并不仅仅是为了更加精美的游戏制作，而更多的可能与研究开发跨平台游戏有关。

诚如Putney所说的，HTML5作为最新的网页及网站编程平台，将应用于每一款网络设备。因此，如果使用HTML5技术开发某种平台游戏，开发者们就可以将这款游戏移植到任何支持该语言的环境中。

Putney也指出，开发者使用HTML5的优势是可以将游戏编码移植到多个平台中。一般来说，很多主要的智能手机平台都支持不同的本地代码，但其中他们能共同支持HTML5。现在iPhone、AndroidWebOS, Backberry 6.0, Bada和Nokia’s Symbian，还有Meego等手机系统都支持HTML5应用，甚至刚开始发售的Windows Phone 7也将在明年支持HTML5。”

Flash VS HTML5

换句话说，HTML5能令玩家更方便地玩自己热衷的社交游戏。我期待这iPhone版的FarmVille（尽管，Mafia Wars Altantic City可能会先一步发行）。HTML5正在成为最基本的社交游戏开发工具，这也意味着以后将没有那些烦人的Flash升级或令人担心的安全隐患。如果将来HTML5真像Putney说的那样将接管社交游戏领域发展的未来，那么以后社交游戏也只能在这项技术的基础上继续发展。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译）

In a recent guest post on Inside Social, Stewart Putney, CEO of HTML5 social game developer Moblyng, said, “HTML5 is the future of social game development,” especially on smartphones. Because just about every phone and browser out there supports–or will soon hop on–the web development platform, Putney believes that HTML5 will beat out Flash as the primary way to create social games in both your browser and on your phone. Putney goes on to speculate that Zynga’s recent expansion into Germany may have more to do with creating games that are truly cross platform than making them look prettier.

And he raises a good point. HTML5, or the newest way to program websites and web programs, will be available on nearly every device you use to access the internet. Not to mention that if a game is developed with HTML5 on one platform, developers can take that game almost anywhere that supports the language.

“The advantage for developers in using HTML5 is the ability to leverage their code across multiple platforms. All major smartphone platforms support a different type of native code, but the one commonality is HTML5,” Putney said. “The iPhone, Android, WebOS, Backberry 6.0, Bada and Nokia’s Symbian and Meego all support HTML5 apps. Even Windows Phone 7 will roll out support in the next year.”

In other words, HTML5 will allow us to find our favorite social games in more places that are all connected while actually looking and feeling similar. I’m looking at you, FarmVille for iPhone. (Though, Mafia Wars: Atlantic City could be a step forward.) HTML5 becoming the primary social game creation tool will also mean no more annoying Flash updates and scary security issues. If Putney is right in saying that HTML5 will take over in the social gaming space, then social games can only improve from here for all of us.（Source：Games.com）