The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been working on HTML5 standard for
almost a decade and now, it’s all ready. With this finalized web standard, it will now be
possible to design webs to be fully compatible with modern age mobile devices and
cloud-based applications.
3. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been working on HTML5 standard for
almost a decade and now, it’s all ready. With this finalized web standard, it will now be
possible to design webs to be fully compatible with modern age mobile devices and
cloud-based applications.
The next generation of web is here! Unlike previous web standards which were limited
to create static web-pages, the new HTML5 has potential to offer a rich user-experience
across the platforms. Although web and mobile developers have been using a lot of
elements of HTML5 in their websites and apps for last several years but with its official
completion, things have turned more stable.
HTML has come to a long way since it was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. Now its
latest version has capabilities to power full-fledged applications for both desktops and
mobiles.
Reasons why HTML5 is also a perfect technology for mobile application development
include its capabilities of handling multimedia content, various sorts of functions, and
animated objects without the requirement of proprietary plug-ins. This wasn’t possible
in the earlier versions of HTML5. Older standards were either lagging behind in their
application-level usages or if developers, somehow, implemented them for applications,
4. the end-users were required to download proprietary plug-ins, which were often
considered unsafe by users.
HTML5 abides the concept of WORA that stands for “write-once, run-anywhere”.
Because HTML is already a cross-platform web standard, and its version 5 has limitless
scopes to be used with applications too, it has become less costly for mobile application
developer to design & develop a mobile app that is supported on multiple mobile
platforms.
A latest survey from Vision Mobile notifies that nearly 42 percent of mobile application
development experts are already using HTML5 along with CSS and JavaScript for
designing and developing cross platform mobile apps.