WTF is HTML5 and Why We Should All Care (Infographic)
Here
is quick summary:
HTML5 is a major revision of HTML intended
to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in based technologies such as
Flash. The big tickets items included in HTML5 are:
01.Canvas Element
– for on-the-fly rendering of visual images without plug-ins
02. Video
Element – for embedding video without plug-ins
03. Geolocation – to
get users’ location info from WiFi towers and GPS
04. Offline
Web Apps – to interact with documents (eg Mail) without an
external client even while offline
Btw, Ian Hickson of Google is the editor of the HTML5 specification! :) So no surprise that among browsers, Chrome leads the pack in terms of HTML5 readiness (86%), with Safari and Firefox close behind (high-70s). IE variants are woefully unprepared (26%).
IE’s incompatibility might affect us – a majority of users are still on that browser, hence our migration towards more cutting-edge products could be impacted. However, I suspect this development will also drive faster adoption of the newer browsers by users.
It showcases the capability of html5.
