Open standards at Google I/O opening (photos)

Seeking to be more open and innovative, Google touts HTML5, enterprise apps, and WebM video at the developer confab.

CNET Reviews staff

May 19, 2010 3:27 p.m. PT

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Outside Google i/o keynote

The crowd arrives for the developer confab Google I/O on Wednesday at Moscone West in San Francisco. Attendance was expected to be about 5,000 for the two-day conference.

VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra takes the stage

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VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra takes the stage

VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra takes the stage saying Google I/O is about developers, innovation, and openness in the Web. "The Web belongs to all of us," Gundotra says.

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SpringSource

SpringSource demos a tool for determining whether the application performance holdup is on the server side, rather than the client side.

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Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai shows off the newly announced drag-and-drop features in Gmail, and a notifications API that allows users to receive Gmail alerts when not logged into Gmail.

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Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai, one of the architects of Chrome OS, discusses HTML5 on stage at Google I/O.

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Chrome

Chrome's cut of the browser market continues to grow, with currently more than 70 million active users.

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Web applications

Google shows the adoption of enterprise Web applications, with sales, accounting, and e-mail topping the list.

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Paul Maritz

Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware, talks about the Enterprise Web computing Google and VMware have been working on together.

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Roo

SpringSource's developer tool Roo is shown during a demo at Google I/O.

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Showing how the same app can be run on two very different computing devices, SpringSource pulls up an expense report application on an iPad.

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SpringSource

SpringSource demonstrates how the Google Web Toolkit integration can make for richer Web application development.

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Google i/o

Inside Moscone prior to the opening of Google I/O 2010, where HTML5, "Google TV," and Android were among the expected topics covered.

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HTML 5

HTML5 has been used by Opera, Safari, and Mozilla for years, but is quickly being adopted by more browsers, including, by the end of the year, Internet Explorer.

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HTML 5

Rich mobile Web applications are being created using HTML5 and adopted faster than others.

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Clicker TV

Clicker TV demonstrates its interface created with HTML5 elements Canvas and Webworkers, which enables simple browsing and filtering of video content based on genre or source.