All future websites and applications will be making more use of HTML5 technology. To help out the web application developers, there are couple of new features in HTML5 for dynamic web pages/applications and interfaces.

1. HTML 5 web browsing experience MadhuriChopurala Dec 22, 2010

2. What is HTML? Why should you care? HTML5 is the next major revision and a set of web standards developed by the "Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group" for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. All future websites and applications will be making more use of HTML5 technology. To help out the web application developers, there are couple of new features in HTML5 for dynamic web pages/applications and interfaces.

3. Brief History of Web Technologies The Web platform is accelerating and data shows the user experience got better from 1990s to till date - talk of HTML5 is everywhere

4. What are the prominent features? Plug-in-free video and audio Faster website loading Drag and Drop items from desktop to the browser Geo Location Numerous APIs and the opportunities for future of web apps

5. Whats new in HTML5? Easy to implement ex; HTML 5 doctype New Inline Elements Mark Time Meter Progress Easy to implement Character set ex; Define with one meta tag HTML 5 New Dynamic Pages SupportContextmenu - it will support the creation and use of context menus within Web pages and applications

6. Whats new in HTML5 ( cont ) New syntax and Elements are added these include <video>, <audio> and <canvas> and updates to elements <a>,<cite> and <menu> New tags to support navigation, body content, side bar content, header, footer etc for webpages, the whole new set of elements make it much easier to structure pages.

7. Diagram illustrates a typical 2 column layout marked up using divs for elements header, footer, article, section and sidebar. Div elements replaced with the new elements header, footer, aside, nav, section and article

8. Markup for that document will look like the following:

9. Who is using it in the market? There is a big Talk on HTML5 in the market as it is gaining support with Web browsers · Apple -for now it is plug in to HTML5 and looks like it will have no more flash - iPhone App developers have begun writing apps for HTML5 · Microsoft for IE 9 HTML5 · Google to support HTML5 more, already using gmail, google maps, geo location · Android to support HTML5 · You tube - if you have already checked out new YouTube app for iPhone demonstrates the use of HTML5 · CBS networks, are reported to be developing players based on HTML5 for their streaming content.

10. Who are the main competitors? Adobe Flash MS Silverlight

11. Conclusion Some are still reluctant to get onto HMTL5 wagon like Netflix and Hulu not yet going for HTML5 for lacking DRM-like solution. Some have completely abondoned HTML5 ....But, HTML5 authors definitely have more flexibility and interoperability and enable more interactive and exciting websites and applications.