Next step for the web content: HTML5

I would like to congratulate Sir Brad Neuberg for the quality of the following HTML5 presentation.
Due to the number of concepts presented in this video, I spent an hour gathering further details about these subjects.
Please find here below, the links and summary, to plunge into the next dimension of the Internet content.


Video timeline:
- Technical History: 0
- Vector graphics: 6
-- SVG: 7:15
-- Canvas API: 10:15
- When Canvas or SVG : 17
- Video: 20:50
- Geolocation:27:25
- Application cache & database: 30:10
- Web Workers: 35:50



Update: Brad's slides are availabe here (PDF).

If you want to test the demos, help yourself. Humm, first of all, make sure you have a modern browser (e.g Firefox 3.5) :

Vector graphic
- 1st person gifter : walk in the game using your keyboard arrow keys,
- SVG Web Toolkit: Animated Population Pyramid,
- Bespin : web code editor. For further explanation watch the mozilla team at Qcon London 2009,
uell : German election Atlas
Canvas: Drawing board

Video: a tag to display a video.
Paul Rouget: sexy videos demo
which format?? Arstechnica: Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate

Geolocalisation: get user position
htmlfive: Authorise and test

Database: store data related to one page on the user computer
Sticky Notes: work on a web page and store date on your computer

Web workers: like a thread in a program, but for a web content
Mozbox: take care demo without workers freeze the browser
hacks.mozilla: using web workers: working smarter, not harder

I also listened to the interview: "Ric Smith on the Present and the Future of HTML 5"; where they mentioned the following HTML5 specifications:

Post message: send messages from one browser window to another one
John Resig: Cross-Window Messaging,

Web socket: a standard answer to send messages from the server to the web browser. This feature will help to replace Comet.
Kaazing: HTML 5 WebSockets

More
diveintohtml5: further details.
Geektechnica: 5 Amazing HTML5 Features to Look Forward to
w3schools: Tutorials on HTML5

Online applications

I went through Zoho writer and Google doc, and I'm still really impressed by Zoho features.
Microsoft is not yet online, but sure enough, they will recover and be on track with online office applications.
Have a look at Paul Thurrott, Office 2010 review to understand their progress and see also his explanation about Office versions.