What presentation design pattern fits HTML5 development?

Question

There are various discussions about whether to use Flash, Silverlight or HTML5. When it comes to Silverlight, it has very different programming experience (more of a desktop model), and this makes it reasonable for Silverlight applications to use MVVP presentation pattern.

But when it comes to pure HTML5-based Web application, is there any well-known presentation design pattern that provides a good fit for them and is often chosen by developers?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I don’t think this area is very well-developed, because there just aren’t that many complex client-side web apps. Generally you do most of your work on the server — HTML (plus CSS) is your presentation layer.

When you are working on the client, the main vague pattern is:

• HTML is your interface
• CSS adds custom styles to the HTML (beyond the default styles that the browser assigns to HTML tags)
• JavaScript adds custom behaviour to the HTML by assigning functions to the available events on HTML tags, via the DOM

I don’t have any Flash or Silverlight experience, hence the vagueness of my answer.

It might be worth reading up a bit on Cappucino, which is a big framework for building complex UIs in HTML.