QBurst Technologies - Blog » Adobe Flex http://www.qburst.com/blog Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:50:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 HTML5 Revolution http://www.qburst.com/blog/2010/05/html5-revolution/ http://www.qburst.com/blog/2010/05/html5-revolution/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 07:55:16 +0000 Manjith Kamalasanan http://www.qburst.com/blog/?p=811 The evolution of HTML has been in progress for close to two decades. The first version of the language released in the early 1990′s started off with just twelve HTML tags. The quantum of development that happened to this mark up language over the last few years is unprecedented. HTML5, the latest version of the same has come out with the some of the best possibilities with the language.

Semantics

The main overhead in HTML4 is the extensive usage of <div> elements to mark the various sections of a standard web page like header, columns, footers etc. But HTML5 has flown in...

]]> The evolution of HTML has been in progress for close to two decades. The first version of the language released in the early 1990′s started off with just twelve HTML tags. The quantum of development that happened to this mark up language over the last few years is unprecedented. HTML5, the latest version of the same has come out with the some of the best possibilities with the language.

Semantics

The main overhead in HTML4 is the extensive usage of <div> elements to mark the various sections of a standard web page like header, columns, footers etc. But HTML5 has flown in with the right solution for the same, with better semantics for marking these elements in a more structured way. New elements would be able to identify each section distinctively.. Elements like <header>, <footer>, <nav> etc., provide a more disciplined semantics making the lives of web developers easier.

Advanced Audio and Video Support

Advanced tags like <audio> and <video> tags are going to make the process of audio and video embedding a much smoother and faster one. Apart from audio and video support, HTML5 has provisions to view animations and other Rich Internet Applications too. This could turn out to be a real challenge for its counter parts like Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight.

Offline Storage

HTML5 is on stage with a highly advanced version of Cookies through an offline storage system. HTML5 promises an offline storage of around 5 MB, much bigger than the capacity of Cookies. The exponents have named this as ‘Local Storage’ that would enable the users to continue using applications when the connection gets terminated under certain non-predictable conditions, through its offline storage of data.

Hyper Threading

One of the most interesting features of HTML5 is that different background threads can be utilized for processing. This proves to be one of the best solutions for web applications that use huge scripts for processing. Performance would also remain unaffected through this hyper threading process.

The Art of ‘Canvas’ing

HTML5 brings forth a new element by name – <canvas>. The <canvas> element holds the power to draw shapes, graphs, gradients etc which would enable to canvas drawings of any shapes in your web page. In short, HTML5 provides the feature where you can render any images or graphics dynamically with the support of javascript libraries.

Geolocation

Geolocation is yet another brand new experience that HTML5 plans to launch.In other words, one would be able to locate the Geo information of a person who browses the website through a Geolocation API support in all browsers. The integration of a high level interface of Global Positioning System (GPS) makes it possible for locating the geographical information of the user.

The fascinating features about HTML5 mentioned above are just a few among the hundreds. The list of new elements that have been launched as part of HTML5 goes endless, empowering the users beyond boundaries.

The world is all set for the revolution. Are you?

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