The new and highly announced version of HTML, the HTML 5 is said to appear soon, but the codes and the attributes that are used by this new revision of HTML are already written. There is only one more thing to be done: to make the Web browsers compatible with the HTML 5. There are Websites that use the latest revision of HTML, which is HTML 4.01, but they will need to be upgraded to HTML 5, if they want to maintain their visitors. I don’t know exactly how this change will affect the existing sites, but all I know is that you have to be ready.
You can learn more about the new tags from the w3schools site. The elements which are inside the HTML tags will be created to help the programmers even more than they did in the past, by combining the use of a single tag for more actions. This is like in CSS, the property “background” can express the color of the background and also the size of it, if the background uses an image and if the image gets repeated or not. In this way, there will be added some new tags, such as header and footer.
You know the Doctype statement, where you need to write if the language that you use is transitional or strict or frameset (I wonder who uses the frames, because I know they’re not indexed by Google)? Well, with the new revision of HTML, you will have to write only the following statement: <!DOCTYPE html>.
The programmer will insert videos and music tracks directly into the HTML codes, without needing to use plugins. If you use WordPress as your blogging platform, you know what I am talking about. The new tags that allow you to do this are simple “audio” and “video” with brackets of course.
We can’t say exactly a date when HTML 5 will start to work properly on every browser. Perhaps this will happen when the browsers will be all ready to accept the changes brought by this new revision. If you want to verify your browser’s compatibility with the new programming tool, you can search on Google or another search engine: “Firefox HTML 5 compatibility”. Or instead of Firefox, write your own browser. Some features of the new tool are supported already by Firefox and Safari, but I know that Chrome also is very good at this updating phase. In fact, I have seen a study, I don’t recall where exactly, where it was said that Chrome has the best capacity of incorporating the features of HTML 5.
