HTML 5, The Next Big Thing.

July 10, 2009 · Filed Under Tech

If you haven’t heard by now HTML is releasing version 5 which is said to redefine the internet as we know it. Now some of these changes and modifications would not be very noticeable to any regular user who just reads website. But to everyone who develops websites it will be a pretty significant change. It first showed up in January 22, 2008 and since then it has been going through revisions and debates. One of the biggest additions being done to HTML 5 two new tags called video and audio. Obviously they speak for themselves on what they do but they will also accomplish to standardized video formats across the internet and hopefully getting rid of using Flash for video contents. There is an ongoing debate on what format and codec to use for the video but it should be resolved in less than a year or so.

HTML 5 is already “out there” but its more of a browser thing to adopt it. As far as I know only Google Chrome 3 (When it comes out) will be supporting HTML 5 at least most of the tags but it will take a few releases of each browsers to actually get it right and perfect it. A few old HTML tags have been depricated because there doesn’t seem to be a need for them since it could be accomplished through CSS. One of my favorite new tags besides the video one, will be footer, article and section which lets you organize your website easier without too much CSS problems. For more information on HTML 5 read the links listed below.

HTML 5 Wiki

“A Preview of HTML 5″

HTML 5 Cheat Sheet

Tags: HTML, Internet, Websites