Should i learn HTML 5 ?
We are getting a few emails with people asking if they should learn HTML 5 so today we will try and clear a few things up. As you know HTML 5 is going to be the next installment in Hyper Text Markup Language, this is quite a leap forward in terms of what has changed in the last five or so years, currently HTML 4.01 is the standard HTML being used and it wasn’t all that much of a change since upgrading from the previous HTML 2.0.
HTML 5 is going to be he next biggest thing since sliced bread(pardon my lame phrase it’s getting late) the new standard of code is going to allow for website developers, web masters and newcomers to create rich feature packed websites, not only websites in general HTML 5 can even be used to make desktop applications, online applications.
If your even slightly interested in making websites or applications then you really should learn HTML 5, the code itself is not all that different from the current code, all tho as this is a huge update to Hyper Text Markup Language there are plenty of new features and a whole lot of extra coding, it may sound a little scary at the moment as there are not many sites actually using HTML 5 this will start to change in the coming months. The reason not many sites are using HTML 5 already is due to the fact that only 2 out of about 20 different browsers can understand the new HTML 5 markup, In the coming weeks we will be making a HTML 5 website so that you can see just what it is capable of (you will need to download the Safari browser in order to view our HTML 5 examples).
We will be adding HTML 5 tutorials every few days so please come back shortly and you can learn HTML 5 with us.
9 Responses
2.2.2010
So why Safari? Opera supports HTML5 much better than Safari and personally I wouldn’t say it’s wise to recommend Safari to anyone out there who’s not on a Mac. Rather I’d recommend the use of Iron if you really need Webkit compatibility.
4.6.2010
For viewing HTML5 I would recommend Google Chrome.
4.20.2010
am very eager to learn HTML5 but i think i will just have to start with HTML 4…hope the difference isn’t that big apart from the functions for embedding video, audio, etc
4.24.2010
I use Safari on vista and love it.
5.13.2010
If HTML 5 is not supported by IE and FF, why bother learning it? MOST people are using those two browsers on PCs. I would like to learn HTML 5, yes, so do you know of the timeframe when it will be supported by at the top 2 PC browsers?
5.27.2010
It was announced that IE9 will support HTML5.
6.10.2010
@Naoh:
HTML5 will be supported in IE9 which is now in Beta and already available for download. (Tom is correct)
Firefox has been supporting certain features of HTML5 already and was first to do so in some aspects of the development. They will offer full HTML5 support as it is becomes a more standardized language. See link below:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/w3c-offers-html-5-draft-731
9.21.2010
why safari? there are lots of browsers that support HTML5 im using internet explorer 9 and it understands HTML5
10.7.2010
Right now, only a few browsers support html 5 (and none of them support it fully, they pick and choose which tags do be implemented)
However all of the leading browsers will adapt the entire html 5 spec sometime before or during 2011. And for people who have computers that can’t update ie6,7,8 *cough* gov’t computers*cough*, google frame will fill in the gap.
HTML 5 looks sweet and I’m learning as much as there is out right now (using chromium and FF4 beta and IE9 beta) so that I’m ready once it becomes a certified standard.