HTML5 Web Information
As many as you have heard that new web technologies are coming into play. With many people using their mobile devices such as the iPhone or Palm Pre the consumers want new web technologies that will help them browse the internet without any plug-ins that need to be installed such as the Macromedia Flash.
Several new elements proposed in HTML5 are meant to only add more semantic markup, and will do nothing except provide a more meaningful alternative to <div>. These new elements include: <article>, <section>, <aside>, <hgroup>, <header>, <footer>, <nav>, <time>, <mark>, <figure>, and <figcaption>.
These elements are available in all modern browsers (Firefox 3+, Safari 3.1+, Chrome 2+, and Opera 9.6+), except for Internet Explorer. JavaScript offers an easy solution with “document.createElement(tagName)”; that you can use to create new HTML5 elements in IE. Instead of creating these elements yourself, you can also use HTML5 Enabling Script or IE Print Protector – these scripts will also help IE render HTML5 elements correctly in print.
HTML5 provides several new attributes, input types and elements for web forms. As of today, only Opera provides decent support for HTML5 forms. You must therefore download Opera to see how most of the new features will work.
- New Input Types
color, email, date, month, week, time, datetime, datetime-local, number, range, search, tel, and url - New Attributes
required, autofocus, pattern, list, autocomplete and placeholder - New Elements
<keygen>, <datalist>, <output>, <meter> and <progress>
HTML5 specification in regards to audio and video is one of its most talked about feature. In addition to the obvious benefits of having native audio and video support, this debate is mainly focused on differences in audio / video formats preferred by browser vendors. If you are going to use HTML5 <audio> and <video>, it is important that you get yourself familiar with following audio/video codecs and know which browser will support what:
- Audio: ogg (ogg, oga), mp3, wav, AAC
- Video: ogg (ogv), H.264 (mp4)
Hopefully this can be a help to a web designer who wants to move in the right path to develop new and exciting web applications using HTML5 technologies.


