Description:
HTML is the web's main "markup language", which tells your browser how to lay out and display web content correctly. HTML4 is almost ten years old; both computers and the web have advanced since then. HTML5 is an updated standard that takes advantage of these improvements, making its easier for people who build websites (like us) to make them, and to make them better. Rich interactions, layout and page structure, audio and video, and cross-browser compatibility are just a few things that have been simplified.
For us, a very exciting part of HTML5 is the video tag. Until now, third-party plugins had to be installed before you could watch streaming video. The video tag means that, right out of the box, modern browsers will be able to play video on Dailymotion - no extra downloads, plugins, or messing around required. What's more, certain browsers can use your graphics card - instead of just your CPU - to render the video this "hardware accelerated graphics" makes playback smoother than ever.
With the canvas element of HTML5, designers and developers can draw, apply affects to, and dynamically interact with shapes and images - tasks that were a lot more complicated in the past.
HTML is the web's main "markup language", which tells your browser how to lay out and display web content correctly. HTML4 is almost ten years old; both computers and the web have advanced since then. HTML5 is an updated standard that takes advantage of these improvements, making its easier for people who build websites (like us) to make them, and to make them better. Rich interactions, layout and page structure, audio and video, and cross-browser compatibility are just a few things that have been simplified.
For us, a very exciting part of HTML5 is the video tag. Until now, third-party plugins had to be installed before you could watch streaming video. The video tag means that, right out of the box, modern browsers will be able to play video on Dailymotion - no extra downloads, plugins, or messing around required. What's more, certain browsers can use your graphics card - instead of just your CPU - to render the video this "hardware accelerated graphics" makes playback smoother than ever.
With the canvas element of HTML5, designers and developers can draw, apply affects to, and dynamically interact with shapes and images - tasks that were a lot more complicated in the past.
