HTML5 for new web browsing experience?

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All future websites and applications will be making more use of HTML5 technology, the next major revision of HTML(HyperText Markup Language) standard…. HTML5 is a set of web standards developed by the “Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group” for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. To help out the web application developers there are couple of new features in HTML5 for dynamic web pages/applications and interfaces.  The Web platform is accelerating and data shows the user experience got better from 1990s to till date – talk of HTML5 is everywhere

Brief History of Web Technologies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What are the prominent features of HTML5?

• Plug-in-free video and audio
• Faster website loading
• Drag and Drop items from desktop to the browser
• Geo Location
• numerous APIs and the opportunities for future of web apps

Whats new in HTML5?

• Easy to implement ex; HTML 5 doctype
• New Inline Elements

1. mark
2. time
3. meter
4. progress

• Easy to implement Character set ex; Define with one meta tag
• HTML 5 New Dynamic Pages SupportContext menus – HTML 5 will support the creation and use of context menus within Web pages and applications
• New syntax and Elements are added these include <video>, <audio> and <canvas> and updates to elements <a>,<cite> and <menu>
• New tags to support navigation, body content, side bar content, header, footer etc for webpages, the whole new set of elements make it much easier to structure pages.

1. <nav>
2. <section>
3. <header>
4. <footer>

Diagram illustrates a typical 2 column layout marked up using divs for elements header, footer, article, section and sidebar.

HTML5 Elements - new structure

Div elements replaced with the new elements header, footer, aside, nav, section and article

Markup for that document will look like the following:

Who are the competitors of HTML5 ?

• Adobe Flash
• MS Silverlight

Who is using HTML5 in the Market ?

There is a big Talk on HTML5 in the market as it is gaining support with Web browsers – Lets view some of the  major companies …

Apple -for now it is plug in to HTML5 and looks like it will have no more flash – iPhone App developers have begun writing apps for HTML5

Microsoft for IE 9 HTML5

Google to support HTML5 more, already using gmail, google maps, geo location

Android to support HTML5

You tube – if you have already checked out new YouTube app for iPhone demonstrates the use of HTML5

CBS networks, are reported to be developing players based on HTML5 for their streaming content.

Some are still reluctant to get onto HMTL5 wagon like Netflix and Hulu not yet going for HTML5 for lacking DRM-like solution. Some have completely abondoned HTML5 ….

But, authors definitely have more flexibility and interoperability and enable more interactive and exciting websites and applications.

Further Reading on structural HTML5

Steve Smith on Structural Tags in HTML5

HTML5 Demos

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