HTML 5 – what’s all the fuss?
I thought I would write a quick piece on why HTML 5 is getting people in the web world all excited. It has spent a long time on the drawing board but we are beginning to see some great examples of HTML 5 based websites. The standard has yet to be finalised but this hasn’t stopped some creative people making lovely new interfaces.
So what’s the fuss I hear you ask? People are making really great websites already using plug-ins and other great tools such as Adobe’s Flash and Google Gears. The main difference we will see is that HTML 5 has some new API elements that will allow a lot of this to be done without the need for 3rd party tools like Flash and Gears.
The new HTML 5 specification will allow for videos to be played back in a users browser, drag and drop should be achievable without the need for JavaScript. There are some new form elements that will handle time/dates, email addresses and colour picking.
We will also see HTML 5 drop some arcane elements that were thought to be a good idea back in the 1990′s however time has since told us that they aren’t mainly the “
