HTML 5
I came across a great article in MIT Technology review which summarizes the background and development of HTML 5. HTML 5 today stands as being a enabler for some of the top trends in technology today such as Cloud, Mobility, Social Information Sharing and Video/TV. Understanding the importance of this is vital.
The central goal of HTML5 is to give websites the chance to expand beyond pages and into programs. For instance, the new terms in the HTML dictionary include “canvas,” which lets a website designer insert a moving graphic that can be used in games or animations. The language will also have tags for video and audio, which should dramatically streamline the way the Web handles multimedia: it will be as easy for a Web developer to incorporate a film clip or a song as it is to place text and images.
While the Web is already saturated with music and video (YouTube alone might count for more than 10 percent of Internet traffic worldwide), HTML5 will clean this content up: multimedia elements will no longer require complex code and an add-on program such as Flash. This should make Web browsers faster and more efficient. Learning to build Web pages should become easier. And HTML5 could potentially boost security, by making it harder for attackers to dupe people into downloading malicious plug-in programs.
In some ways, HTML5 is taking the best of how the Web works and making it standard. For instance, today Gmail lets you take a file from a computer desktop and instantly attach it to an e-mail by dragging it into the browser window. Now that trick is being enshrined in HTML5, which means that easy dragging and dropping will become part of the common set of assumptions about what Web pages can do.
It’s clear that the technology will open new possibilities, too. Still in development is a feature that enables a browser to store a large amount of data; the new specifications recommend that the amount be five megabytes per Web domain, or 1,000 times more than is currently possible. That capacity could enable people to use Web pages even when they’re not connected to the Internet. You could use downtime on the subway to alter your fantasy-football lineup or write e-mails; then, when you had connectivity again, you’d find that the website “takes care of synching it up,” says Anne van Kesteren, a software engineer who works on open standards for Opera.
Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/web/26565/?a=f
Nice post, you’ve shared a couple of really useful resources for getting a good solid understanding of HTML5. I’ve read bits about it and have become very excited about the future. With the CSS3 use on the horizon I think its going to make the web an even better experience, than it already is… Just waiting for the older browsers to get up to speed with things. We could be waiting a while…
Thanks for sharing.
January 5th, 2011 at 8:37 pmThis is great
Jimmy, you and the other authors og HTML5 programming here are going to accelerate the use of HTML 5 by providing articles like this to everyday bloggers and web professionals. Thanks for your forward looking work…As I know it will make surfing & website opening very fast.
January 8th, 2011 at 1:47 pmI don’t even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was great. I don’t know who you are but definitely you are going to a famous blogger if you are not already
Cheers!
January 9th, 2011 at 12:21 pmI’ve tried to implement some HTML5 features on my own site but sadly had to back track as I was unable to get around issues with IE Browser. I did use the JS hack adding elements on the fly but it didn’t seem to work. My JS was not inline maybe this is an issue, must run some tests when I get a minute. Can anyone let me know how it works ??
January 23rd, 2011 at 9:02 amHey! I know this is kind of off topic but I was wondering which blog platform are you using for this website? I’m getting tired of WordPress because I’ve had issues with hackers and I’m looking at options for another platform. I would be great if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.
March 12th, 2011 at 1:56 pmI am very excited about the designing with HTML5 technique. It is going to make designing much easier & Fast.
April 13th, 2011 at 6:42 amI agree with this post that multimedia elements no longer required with HTML 5. such as add-on like flash & make Web browsers faster and more efficient.
Hi there! I am looking to put one blog page in my own website. I have searched on how to do this with html, etc, and haven’t found the code yet to put one into my own website!
I’m sure it must be javascript related. if you have any coding info on this … please reply , if you can!!!
May 6th, 2011 at 11:24 amShasteen…just use WordPress.
You can set a (static) page to home page, and set the “blog page” to a subfolder of the site, and all posts will be listed there.
May 11th, 2011 at 6:46 am