subject: Html 5 Development: Getting Popular With Passing Time [print this page] You may have already heard a lot about HTML5 web design and how it will change the web development in the near future. So what is HTML5? HTML means Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the 5th revision of HTML standard. It is the next key step in the development of HTML; it now introduces wide range of new features. HTML5 web development platform gives the experience of building the web pages to a different level.
Hypertext is the text which contains links to other texts. In hypertext, information is presented as a linked network of nodes which readers are free to navigate in a non-linear fashion. These links are referred to as hyperlinks. Markup refers to the sequence of characters or symbols that can be inserted at certain places in a text. The markup indicators are often called "tags."
How HTML Works?
Html contains tags (a series of short codes) typed into a text-file by the site author. This text saved as an html file is viewed through various browsers, which translate them into a visible form. Html pages can be created using rudimentary text-editor or a powerful graphical editor.
Advantages of HTML5 Development
There are a couple of new approaches that are taking place in the html5 web development which generate a lot of interest among the developers. HTML5 web design introduces new elements on the basis of researches and improves interoperability by defining clear conformance criteria for user agents.
Here top five benefits of HTML5 have been explored, which are:
Web workers
HTML5 is like a Hyper-Threading for web browsers.
It carries out processing through different threads without disturbing the webpage.
Mainly useful to the web applications which relies on heavy scripts to perform functions.
This feature is supported by Firefox 3.5b, Opera and Safari.
Video element
Web developers can set in video components into their internet application pages with ease using HTML5. They no longer have to depend on third-party proprietary plug-ins or codec.
Canvas
This element helps in making graphics and images on the fly. This is seen to be implemented by the developers of Mozilla lab project Bespin. Furthermore, it is also seen to be implemented in works with FF 3.5 Chrome Opera. The major advantage of this feature is that it facilitates working without relying on plug-ins.
Application caches
HTML5 web design in India makes it easy to create offline version of a web application, by creating a cache manifest file. HTML5 has introduced application cache, which means that a web application is cached, and will be accessible even without an internet connection. An example for this is Google gears, which helps you access Gmail offline.
Geolocation
The new HTML 5 geolocation APIs make location, whether generated via GPS or other methods, directly available to any HTML 5-compatible browser-based application. The location information sources are Global Positioning System (GPS) and network signals such as IP address, RFID, WiFi and Bluetooth MAC addresses, and GSM/CDMA cell IDs.
Wrap Up
With the rapid progression in web designing to formulate ultra-modern websites, to cater to the numerous needs, the future is going to be none other than HTML5.
