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Conceptual HTML 5
As various groups debate and brainstorm what will soon be HTML 5, designers and programmers sit and hope for more standards and cleaner code.
What might HTML bring? Here are a few enhancments to note from the HTML 5 draft spec:
- An understandable tagging strategy. Instead of bundling all multimedia into object or embed tags, video goes in video tags. Audio goes in audio tags…
- Localized SQL databases that websites can read and write to, speeding up interactive searching, cacheing and indexing functions.
- Rich animations without plug-ins. The canvas element gives the browser the ability to draw vector graphics. This means configurable, automatic graphs and illustrations right in the browser without Flash or Silverlight. Some support for canvas is already in all the latest browsers.. except for IE (of course).
- Real apps in the browser. APIs for in-browser editing, drag and drop, back button “waypoints,” and other graphical user interface abilities.
- Content presentation tags will be phased out, and CSS will rule (as it should).
In theory, HTML 5 promises a lot of new ideas for web standards. But for now, it’s just an experimental specification.
