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HTML5

What is HTML5 and what does it mean for you?

Web design fro HTML 5

HTML5 is currently under development as the next major revision of the HTML standard. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Google Gears.  Most importantly, HTML5 opens the door for more wide-spread applications of Web site for mobile devices include phones, tablets and others.

For the web designer, HTML5 introduces a number of new elements and attributes that reflect typical usage on modern websites. Some of them are semantic replacements for common uses of generic block (<div>) and inline (<span>) elements, for example (<nav>) and <footer>  (usually referring to bottom of web page or to last lines of html code). Other elements provide new functionality through a standardized interface, such as the multimedia elements such as audio and video. Some deprecated elements from HTML 4.01 have been dropped, including purely presentational elements such as <font> and <center>, whose effects are achieved using Cascading Style Sheets. There is also a renewed emphasis on the importance of DOM (Document Object Modal) scripting (e.g., JavaScript) in Web behavior.

HTML5 will allow Wild Web Studios to develop next generation website for mobile devices - which are expected to out sell desktop computers in late 2011.  We are prepared for this transition and have already begun developing new web sites in HTML5.

Stay tuned...