Things You Need To Know about HTML 5

Web is a strange place. Before you know there is someone with something new out there and you suddenly feel legging behind. HTML 5 is one such development that caught a lot of young designers by surprise. Suddenly there was buzz, excitement, and a certain fear about the exact nature of what it is. Soon most webmasters started to believe that hTML is the next best thing to happen to them. Most still don’t know why exactly. As it happens with a lot of new things HTML 5 got a lot of unwanted and at times undeserved hype. We have researched some of the reasons why HTML bandwagon is just that a bandwagon and you don’t need to panic and look for an alternative career if you don’t know HTML5 coding. Here are some reasons why you need not worry just yet.

Not All-Browser Compatible

 At the moment only a handful of browsers support HTML 5. Opera, chrome, and Firefox support HTML 5 at the moment. And only the latest version of these browsers supports the language. A lot of users do not believe in keeping their browsers updated so you loose out on those as well.

What that means is that if you choose to use HTML 5 you have style for backwards compatibility. You have to work really hard with your CSS3 so that all browsers can understand and display your code correctly. Add to that the individual need for browsers, for example, Safari wants you to use the prefix –webkit to signify HTML5 tags. So, you have to consider whether the cool new features are worth all this effort.

Cool Unique Features, Really?

HTML5 boasts of some cool new capabilities that partner well with the latest design buzz of Web 2.0. Rounded corners, fancy headers, footers and boxes with gloss all are possible with HTML5 styling. But let’s reconsider if all this is, such as, huge task that ask for HTML5 implementation? You can still accomplish all these design elements without HTML5.

Same applies to HTML5’s audio and video capabilities. You can easily and more efficiently embed audio and video into webpages with HTML5. The tags are made available. But again you can accomplish all this using Flash and that requires same resources as HTML5.

Mobile Browsers

Mobile browsing capability is another of HTML 5’s trick that lures a lot of people in. But you have to understand that mobile browsing requires same browsers that still can’t read HTML 5 properly. So, it kind of defeats the purpose, isn’t it?

SEO Capabilities

HTML5 has certain tags that are touted as SEO capable. Thee tags highlight which content is more important than the other. They tell search engines which content to index more and how often. Well, you might say that all that can be accomplished without HTML5. You can generate an efficient XML sitemap to interact with the search engines to guide them about the content priority.

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