Google loves html5 (in Android 2.0)
The specs for Android 2.0 were just released and whaddaya know;
Support for HTML5:
- Database API support, for client-side databases using SQL.
- Application cache support, for offline applications.
- Geolocation API support, to provide location information about the device.
<video>tag support in fullscreen mode.
Great, no more fiddling with Gears just for Android’s sake. Let’s hope they adhere to the relevant html5-specs the same way Apple does, so you don’t need to do differentiate between iPhone os3 and android 2.0 when creating offline-capable web-apps!
Off course there’s more than just html5 in this new Android version, here’s a short video showing some of the changes in Eclair:
A personal message for HTC to finish this blogpost: feel free to skip Android 1.6 to focus on using 2.0 as the basis for my Hero’s next rom update 
frank
28 Oct 09 at 18:33
And HTC answers (a more investigative hero-user’s question):
and there was much rejoicing!