Skip to main content

HTML 5 Is Finally Complete

By VJ
logo for html 5

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C.org) has announced that the HTML 5 specification has become final.

If you are confused what it is all about, check out the advantages and features of HTML 5. This will mark the future of the web, without Adobe Flash and other such insecure technologies. You may probably know about Apple’s long-term disapproval of Adobe Flash. Even Adobe accepts Flash is more or less insecure. In HTML 5, you have amazing list of features, all of which are compared in HTML5Rocks, a web collaboration that talks about the features and benefits of this version.

In short, these are the features offered in HTML 5.

1. Graphics


HTML 5 can show you graphics without the help of any external technologies. The supported list of technologies include 2D/3D Canvas, CSS 3D transforms, WebGL, SVG, SMIL, etc.

With these new 2D and 3D transform features and web fonts, you can use HTML 5 to create presentations on web pages.

2. Offline Capability


Another feature of HTML 5 is that it is capable of providing offline capabilities. The kind of offline work you might have seen in Google Gmail and Gears is what we are talking about. Local storage capabilities can be built into websites and they can work as an app with data stored on your computer (not the server) while you are offline. When you get back online, of course, the data will be synced with the server for concordance. However, this particular feature may have some concerns too.

This coupled with advanced file access features of HTML 5 makes it highly useful for offline computing.

3. Better Connectivity


Have you been waiting for websites to load forever even with a fast connection? One of the major reasons for this is the presence of apps that require not just HTML but some proprietary technologies as well that we recognize by the term plugin or add-on. With HTML 5, since almost everything is built into it, you don’t need most of the plugins. This in addition to its efficient structure makes the future websites lightning fast.

4. Multimedia


For the best part of the decade, online video sites and audio sites have thrived. Games have been developed and played online. Applications have been developed for online use. All of this was possible with the help of proprietary technologies and plugins. With HTML 5, you have audio and video capabilities within the language itself. Formats supported include MPEG (H.264), VP8, Ogg, etc.

5. Semantics


With HTML 5, your websites are going to be more optimized for search engines and social media. They can interact with visitors on a much better level. The websites will have capability of offering not only text-based content but also videos and audios and generate microdata syntax for each of these elements thus making them relevant for search engines.

Conclusion


HTML 5 is what we have been waiting for such a long time. The latest web browsers (most of them of course) support this specification. Some features of HTML 5 are not supported by IE and some of the top browsers. However, Google Chrome, Android browser, Firefox, and other such open source products support most of the specifications of HTML 5.
Labels:

Popular posts from this blog

The History of Microsoft - Page 1

By VJ
Page 1 -   Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 My readers have been asking me around about the company known far and wide as Microsoft and how it came to be the top-most in computer technology. I thought it apt to make a post here detailing the story of Microsoft through its developmental stages. Two tech geeks, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, both dropouts from their respective universities, have managed to create this giant in computer software. Here it is, the history of Microsoft as a software company. I found a lot of information published by Wikipedia and other such sites to be wrong. I have managed to get the dates and events as accurately as possible here. The story of Microsoft begins when Popular Electronics published an article about the first personal computer. The First Year—1975 January 1 st 1975: The advertisement of the first ever personal computer—MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) Altair 8800 appears on the Popular Electronics magazine. This is a d...
Read the full article »

What Is the Role of a Firewall, and How Does It Secure a Network From Unsafe Traffic?

By VJ
To understand firewalls, basic understanding of how networks function is requisite. Deep down, how do the packets of information that you send reach the intended receivers? How do the messages intended for you reach you safely? And how does it all function like clockwork? Let’s understand the basics of firewalls and see how a firewall secures the traffic in and out of a network. Consider this scenario for getting an understanding of how firewalls work. Say, you open up your browser to book a flight ticket for your upcoming vacation, and your computer is conveniently insecure without a firewall. Let’s say you come across an intriguing email that gives an offer you can’t refuse. You open the email and click a link, and bam! An unwanted piece of spyware is installed on your system. The spyware then proceeds to sit on your system tray, hidden from your eyes, tracking the keystrokes you make, reading the top-secret files you have, and looking for potentially rewarding information, such...
Read the full article »

Is It Worth the Buy: Sony Xperia Tablet Z, the World’s Thinnest Tablet

By VJ
Sony has been making and marketing tablets since April, 2011 . The Japanese tech giant made an entry into the Android tablet world with Sony Tablet S with the folded-newspaper design and Tablet P having two 5.5 inch displays. The entry however has not been quite profitable for Sony. Here is IDC’s global market share of tablets up until the fourth quarter of 2012, and in the statistic, Sony doesn’t even have its name. Apple and Samsung are the only OEMs turning any real profit out of tablet business. In these extreme conditions, Sony is coming up with a new tablet, Xperia Tablet Z. Xperia Tablet Z has been unveiled officially in the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona yesterday. Just as Sony’s upcoming flagship, Xperia Z smartphone , Tablet Z is also waterproof. Let’s check out the new tablet from Sony and see whether it can be a really good buy or not, based on the available data. Technical Specifications First of all, let’s check out the technical specifications of Xper...
Read the full article »