Irrespective of what the experts
would like you to believe,HTML, particularly with its latest version
HTML5, is still very much in demand, and riding on its exceptional
resourcefulness and pursue of innovation, it is here to stay.
And the avant-garde features that
get introduced on regular basis are consistently driving it towards
empowerment. This post however isn't just about that. It rather goes
on to explain, based on some pertinent reasons, as to why HTML5 is
being hotly pursued and how it has further redeemed the PSD to HTML conversion industry.
So, let's take a closer look at why
HTML5 is being viewed with such a keen desire by the web development
community:
It is Redefining Web Development By the Day
The big, bang world of web
development keeps moving at a brisk speed and keeping up is
recommended much more than catching up. HTML5 is providing the way to
future, and that is singularly the most important reason for you to
go with it. This platform is becoming the order of the day and more
and more development professionals are leaning towards it for its
developer-friendliness and for the fact that it lets them create web
solutions of the most creative and formidable nature. Ere are new
elements added to it every fortnight.
It Replaces the Arduous XHTML doctype with the New, Improved and
Easy to Use Doctype
XHTML doctype has been nightmarish
for certain developers, and understandably so.
This is how it looked like:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Too cluttered and too unwieldy, to
put it mildly. Now, thanks to HTML5, it has ben reduced to this:
<!DOCTYPE
html>
What also needs to be told that
using the doctype isn't mandatory in HTML5. However, with older
browsers, you just might need it.
The Remarkably Creative Geolocation
The feature with sensory nature,
Geolocation is a feature that detects a website user's location
through the browser he/she is using by determining the exact
coordinates and returning those as mathematical values. The best part
about this feature is that it is compatible with a suite of browsers
and OS platforms. This feature serves a genuine purpose for the
location based apps that are populating the app market with a great
speed.
Provision for Offline Caching
The web users no longer need an
active Internet connection at all times if they wish to access the
same website they did at some time in the recent past. With HTML5
development, offline caching is an even more seamless exercise. The
webmasters can actually decide that what specific files are saved by
the visitor's browser once they visit the site so that the next time
they wish to access it without an Internet connection, they don't
miss out on the most important files.
Cross-Browser Compatibility
Now, there are things that come
before the visual appeal of a website, and among those, compatibility
rings the loudest. If your website is easily and efficiently
accessible on a range of browsers and OS platforms, you have already
accomplished one serious part of the task.
The 'Type' Attribute is Not Needed Anymore for Scripts and for
Links
Many developers are used to adding
the Type attribute to the tags of the scripts and links they use:
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="path/to/stylesheet.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript"
src="path/to/script.js"></script>
In HTML5 however, you can get rid
of the attribute and make your code smaller and easy to write and
memorize:
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="path/to/stylesheet.css" />
<script src="path/to/script.js"></script>
As iterated
before, the web development landscape is transforming fast, really
fast. And with HTML5 emerging as such a potent platform, we can
anticipate more transformational changes. They will keep coming.
