HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development. HTML 5 defines the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web that might even make obsolete plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.

The World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) HTML 5 proposal is geared toward Web applications, something not adequately addressed in previous incarnations of HTML, the W3C acknowledges. In other words, HTML 5 tackles the gap that Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX are trying to fill.

One of HTML 5’s goals is to move the Web away from proprietary technologies such as Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX, says Ian Hickson, co-editor of the HTML 5 specification. (Hickson is a Google employee, while his co-editor David Hyatt works for Apple.)

The features like Canvas, local storage, and Web Workers let us do more in the browser than ever before. Local storage enables users to work in a browser when a connection drops and Web Workers makes “next generation” applications incredibly responsive by pushing long-running tasks to the background.

Structure:

HTML 5 introduces a whole set of new elements that make it much easier to structure pages. Most HTML 4 pages include a variety of common structures, such as headers, footers and columns and today, it is fairly common to mark them up using div elements, giving each a descriptive id or class.

The use of div elements is largely because current versions of HTML 4 lack the necessary semantics for describing these parts more specifically. HTML 5 addresses this issue by introducing new elements for representing each of these different sections. 

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Although there is been gold rush about new version of HTML 5, the full version release is expected to be rolled out to the users by 2022. That is almost 13 years from now. So if you are a webdeveloper and expecting to try your hands on full featured HTML 5, hold on, learn some other new technology till you get older by 13 more years.

Ameya

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