Re: [ANN] [IOC] [I/O Coin] Bittrex,Cryptsy,C-Cex - I/O Name Server

what's the significance of having an HTML5-based wallet (as opposed to a Qt wallet?)?

Having an HTML5 wallet has 4 main benefits:

1. It's far more visually appealing and user-friendly than a Qt wallet.
2. It's easy to modify the underlying code to support more features, as it is written in Javascript rather than C++.
3. We will have support for third-party skins, so that you can customize the look of your wallet.
4. We can release on it on a reasonable time-frame (if we had written one in C++ with Qt from scratch it would have taken months).

Cool - so what are the disadvantages? I mean, why isn't everyone doing this?

Many have tried and many have failed. It is a big task and need top developers to build a new html5 crypto wallet, I/Ocoin has the developers who are more than up to the job and in a few days people will see why. Also with the new wallet being HTML5 based, it makes it more Apple friendly and increases our chances of getting our new html5 wallet added to the Apple App store.

There are no disadvantages only advantages as much more can be created using HTML5 over the old QT client.