HTML 5: Game Changer

Posted June 24th, 2009 by Albert Banks

This year, the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) released it’s HTML 5 proposal. HTML 5, is a significant update to the prominent web presentation specification. The changes focus on web application development, ones that might even make proprietary plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX irrelevant.

Below are the most significant new features and their current browsers support:

Video and Audio Tags

The long awaited video and audio tags that would standardize how we include these elements in websites. With HTML 5,  including video to your webpage would not require utilizing third-party plug-ins (ie. Flash, Quicktime) or video codecst.  Developers would also be able to manipulate videos and built-in video controls.
Browsers: Firefox 3.5

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