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Not sure why I was downvoted here? I am mid-level front end coder (HTML/CSS & plug and play Jquery scripts) who hasn't used HTML5 yet (i do use CSS3 often to d

Not sure why I was downvoted here? I am mid-level front end coder (HTML/CSS & plug and play Jquery scripts) who hasn't used HTML5 yet (i do use CSS3 often to design sites & code). I've only glanced over the mark up and wondered why I would use that over what I've been using past 2 years. I know there are <video> and <audio> mark up tags that in some years will kill the need to use flash. What are the other advantages - the everything else?

nkassis 15y ago
I think the down vote is mostly because the article is centred on WebGL and nothing to do with the new mark-up elements in HTML5.
viscanti 15y ago
I didn't down vote, so I can't answer to that. The parts I found useful from "everything else" I listed above. LocalStorage is the big one (IMO). You get access to a built in, cross session data store natively. The canvas element has some interesting potential applications. I don't think it's quite "there" yet, as far as performance goes on most systems. The reasons for the markup changes are to help standardize things. If you don't feel the need to do that, you don't need to. You won't find a whole lot in html5 that will affect what you do from a design standpoint (unless you start throwing in some canvas elements). Your plug and play jQuery scripts might take advantage of some html5 elements without you knowing, but they've sufficiently abstracted those details away from you, so that you don't need to worry about them. Those elements won't break if you're using HTML4 markup instead.
daleharvey 15y ago
When people refer to html5 they are often including css3 within those technologies, html5 has by most people agreed to be a marketing term that just means the recent wave of web tech, html itself is now versionless http://slides.html5rocks.com/#landing-slide http://slides.html5rocks.com/#landing-slide is probably the best overview of the new "html5" features, my personal favourites would probably be localStorage, websockets and webgl, along with a lot of the css3 features

nkassis 15y ago

I think the down vote is mostly because the article is centred on WebGL and nothing to do with the new mark-up elements in HTML5.

viscanti 15y ago

I didn't down vote, so I can't answer to that. The parts I found useful from "everything else" I listed above. LocalStorage is the big one (IMO). You get access to a built in, cross session data store natively. The canvas element has some interesting potential applications. I don't think it's quite "there" yet, as far as performance goes on most systems. The reasons for the markup changes are to help standardize things. If you don't feel the need to do that, you don't need to. You won't find a whole lot in html5 that will affect what you do from a design standpoint (unless you start throwing in some canvas elements). Your plug and play jQuery scripts might take advantage of some html5 elements without you knowing, but they've sufficiently abstracted those details away from you, so that you don't need to worry about them. Those elements won't break if you're using HTML4 markup instead.

daleharvey 15y ago

When people refer to html5 they are often including css3 within those technologies, html5 has by most people agreed to be a marketing term that just means the recent wave of web tech, html itself is now versionless http://slides.html5rocks.com/#landing-slide http://slides.html5rocks.com/#landing-slide is probably the best overview of the new "html5" features, my personal favourites would probably be localStorage, websockets and webgl, along with a lot of the css3 features