Beside my university lectures I read a lot about HTML5 the past
weeks. I want to share some findings with you.
So what is all the fuss about HTML5, it is like HTML 4 just
newer, right? Wrong.
HTML5 is a set of technologies including JavaScript, CSS3, HTML
and techniques like AJAX, enabling the developers to make apps that
behave like desktop applications. It's able to make native use of
your hardware (e.g. sensors on your mobile phone), play videos and
audio without the need of 3rd party products like flash, develop
offline applications and, imho most important possibility, build
applications that work on every HTML5 compatible device or every
device that can run a Webrowser. Desktop PC's, Laptops, PDA's,
smartphones, Apple, Microsoft, Linux. The boundaries for
cross-platform applications are falling with HTML5
technology. If you want to look at a nice picture to visualize the
core HTML5 improvements, take a look at
'WTF is HTML5? and why we
all should care'. I like it. To get a more impressive
inside, take a look at the
Chrome Experiments website.
I went through all the recommended websites on http://www.w3.org/html/logo/ and
I want to present some delightful sightings.
Internet Explorer compatibility
Internet Explorer, the most commonly used Webrowser (~60% of
users), does not support HTML5 and CSS3 in a full extend. Newer
Versions will do of course, but what is with all these IE 6,7 and 8
users that still exist?
Here is a solution to the problem: Google
Chrome Frame is kind of a plugin for older versions of
Internet Explorer that is especially designed to support these old
browsers with HTML5 functionalities. All you have to do as a
developer is to
add a meta tag to your website and your IE users are just
2 clicks away from the HTML5 experience and your web-application
can still be cutting edge and state-of
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