HTML 5: New flavor of HTML

In my professional life, you can found me as a Web buff. Its my passion to move around in jungle of the internet. I have put my steps on thousands of Web Sites. Though there was never a moment which let me pissed-off, I salute those minds who are serving us a variety of Websites everyday. I feel really amazed whenever I visit a new Logo Design, Web Design or a new technology for Web Development. From where they are finding the new idea of Marketing? Its still a deep secret.

Web is growing with a speed of thousand steps a day. Everyday I found number of new creations, new inventions in plenty of Web Sites. Web Developers are stretching the limits of HTML 4 in each direction. The needs of developers are increasing day by day, they are wishing more better technologies to cater heighten functionalities.

Lets welcome HTML 5, the nascent technology which provides us an opportunity to perform things in different ways. It also improves changeability and reduces cost of development by following stringent rules which helps about how to control all HTML elements and also how to get recovered from errors.

I found some excellent new features introduced by HTML 5, including functions for embedding video, audio, client-side data storage, graphics, and interactive documents. HTML 5 also contains new elements like <nav>, <footer>, <header> and <figure>.

HTML 5 has introduced and heighten a wide range of features including APIs, form controls, multimedia, semantics and structure. Key players like representatives of Mozilla, Apple,Microsoft and Opera and also another range of individuals and organizations have participated in the W3C endeavour with diverse expertise and interest.

Be mentioned that the specification is still a effort in progress and can take some long time to completion. It may be possible that the features we have talk about may get changed in the future. My intention here was only to give a brief introduction about recent features of HTML 5.

Lets find out what HTML 5 has grown up compare to HTML 4.

Structure

New set of elements are introduced by HTML 5, it makes structure of pages more easier. Today variety of common structures, such as columns,headers and footers are included in HTML 4 pages. It is most common to mark up them with div elements, here each of them are getting descriptive class or id.

Audio and Video

HTML 5 has introduced particular tag for Audio and Video. There are <audio> and <video>. In HTML 4 we were not supposed to do it. Lets see how it works:

Here it is for video:

<video src=”video.ogv” controls poster=”poster.jpg” width=”320″ height=”240″>
<a href=”video.ogv”>Download movie</a>
</video>

And here for audio:

<audio src=”music.oga” controls>
<a href=”music.oga”>Download song</a>
</audio>

Now its up to people how can they utilize these new functionalities, I am little satisfied with this new flavor of HTML 5 for now. There may have some modification to make us feel more comfortable, I will be waiting to see; what can they do next ?