HTML5 LEADS A WEB REVOLUTION

HTML5 LEADS A WEB REVOLUTION

1. It was specially designed to deliver rich content without the need for additional plugins

2. How Did HTML5 Get Started?

   • HTML5 is a cooperation between the World Wide Web Consortium

3. Some rules for HTML5 were established

   • New features should be based on HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript
   • The need for external plugins should be reduced
   • Error handling should be easier than in previous versions
   • Scripting has to be replaced by more markup
   • HTML5 should be device-independent
   • The development process should be visible to the public

4. a Developer-Friendly standard

   • , has begun us- ing HTML5 for all its Web work
   • Not all of the highly touted features in the umbrella standard are strictly speak- ing “new,” says Matthew McVickar

5. Officially, HTML5,

   • when narrowly defined as the hypertext markup lan- guage specification
   • Philippe Le Hégaret, interaction do- main lead at the W3C
     • tighter specs
       • The new specifications are a big help to the vendors, agrees Ian Hickson
       • an Internet specialist and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University

6. Zhang is keenly interested in video as a cofounder of Conviva Inc

   • Officially, HTML5, when narrowly defined as the hypertext markup
   • But the individual specifica- tions are at different maturity levels and will become standards at different times
   • There are two driving forces behind this evolution