HTML5 is the latest version of hyper-text markup language that has transformed the web development industry. It is a modified version of the original HTML standard, developed in the year 1990 by the World Wide Web Consortium as an Open Web Platform.
It has not only brought in a large number of new features, but also provided the web designers and developers’ community to come up with highly interactive and engaging websites.
In HTML5, a single batch of code can be very efficiently utilized across all platforms, devices and markets. This offers incredible advantage because of lowered-down development and maintenance costs over a particular website’s or web application’s lifetime.
HTML5 has simple Doctype <!DOCTYPE html> where there is no need to copy and paste the lengthy and unreadable codes. Apart from extraordinary simplicity, it works finely with all the latest versions of major browsers.
One of the most remarkable advantages of HTML5 lies in its ability that has bettered the accessibility of websites. The screen readers in HTML5 are able to understand different tags as well as access content such as <header>, <footer>, <nav>, <section>, <aside> with no glitch at all. This amazing feature not only brings betterment in the display, but also simplifies the coding process. All this together offers enhanced access to the end users regardless of the screen size, resolution, and orientation of the device.
“Keep the codes clean” is what all HTML5 content development tutorials say to their students. With HTML5, it is easy for developers now to keep the codes neat and clean as HTML5 allows them to write both semantic and descriptive codes in a very neat and clean manner.
HTML5 offers improved storage feature that acts as a perfect synergy between client-side database and cookies style storage. Improved storage is also better in terms of security.
In a multi-browser world where each and every website needs to have cross- browser compatibility, HTML5 Doctype works wonders. HTML5 supports all major browsers that include:
Even users who are still stuck with Internet Explorer 6 can have seamless access to any website just through a simple installation of JavaScript.
Various recent market research surveys have made prediction that mLearning and micro-learning content delivery is soon going to be a trend. For organizations dealing in L&D and the providers of courseware content, HTML5 offers robust advantages of cross-platform as well as multi-device capabilities while connecting an enhanced number of users with ease.
With the inevitable rise in popularity of HTML5, designers and programmers can find and explore new and exciting possibilities for their HTML5 Development Services. It is the features and attributes of Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML) that make it the most recommended language in web development.