What is HTML5? Is it ready & who’s using it…. February 22nd, 2012.
There’s a lot of chat in the web world about the ‘magical’ HTML5. So what exactly is HTML5? For those not in the industry I’d say it’s a new standard for creating improved feature-rich websites. For example, native support for video and audio which have previously only been possible with plug-ins such as Flash. The fact that HTML5 is an unfinished standard, with varying degrees of support is something I’d probably leave out of the conversation. Good old Wiki is always there to deal with the technicalities.
For those who do work in the web industry, HTML5 means a lot of different things. Hopefully like me, HTML5 is seen as a positive. As a designer it fundamentally means a new set of HTML tags such as <section>, <nav>, <article>, etc. It means studying boilerplate’s and help-guides like the excellent html5doctor to learn how to implement these new tags correctly. read more…
