The Web Is Reborn
The last decade expanded what we could do online, but the Web’s basic programming couldn’t keep up. That threatened to fracture the world’s greatest innovation engine—until a small group of Web rivals joined forces to save it.
Mozilla, Opera, and Apple announced that it was forming a new body to take up the work on HTML that was being abandoned by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
The impor tant point is that HTML5 has been developed by companies that actually have to answer to their customers. And their work has made for the biggest overhaul the programming of the Web has ever received.
What HTML5 will change?
Structure *New tags in coding of sites will help them better organize the information they present to search engines’ automated indexers. That could make search results more relevant for everyone.
Canvas
*Video in the browser is tough today because its about plug-ins. Now a new video tag.
YouTube running entirely using the video tag. No flash required.
*The language has 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.
*HTML5 will clean the web 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.
Structure *New tags in coding of sites will help them better organize the information they present to search engines’ automated indexers. That could make search results more relevant for everyone.
Canvas
*Video in the browser is tough today because its about plug-ins. Now a new video tag.
YouTube running entirely using the video tag. No flash required.
*The language has 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.
*HTML5 will clean the web 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.
Drag and drop
Dragging and dropping has been the standard way to move files around a computer desktop. Now HTML5 is bringing it to the web. You could quickly upload a new photo of yourself to a social network.
Dragging and dropping has been the standard way to move files around a computer desktop. Now HTML5 is bringing it to the web. You could quickly upload a new photo of yourself to a social network.
Database and Application Cache
n HTML5 has the capacity which could enable people to use Web pages even when they’re not connected to the Internet. When you had connectivity again, you’d find that the website “takes care of synching it up.
n 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.
NEW LIFE
n HTML5 can’t fix the Web overnight. There’s still a long way to go. For example, while the browser makers are in agreement on most things, they continue to argue about which video standards to support.
n It might also take some time for Web developers to put the technology to its most significant uses; first they’ll want to be sure that enough people are using Web browsers that can fully handle HTML5
n Scribd (Document Sharing Website) engineers spent 6 months rebuilding the site . They stopped using flash to display documents , even though that meant they had to convert tens of millions of files to HTML5.
*After the renewal Scribd’s pages looked crispier. No longer did it seem as if users had to view the files through their lens.
* Readers began sticking around 3 times longer.
* Scribd’s renovation also made the site usable in the browser of an ipad, where it has the smoothness and light feel of an app
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