HTML5 is new version of HTML(Hyper-text Markup Language) which introduces new kinds of elements satisfying demands on RIA(Rich Internet Application) technology in addition to existing one like Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight. I think there was no proper solution for web service interface architecture. Flex is too heavy and Silverlight is not easy to use. Now, new HTML format with AJAX technology is popped-up. Then let’s get through the inside.
The most impressive change in HTML5 is Canvas element with drawing tool. This allows developers to represent their creativity with more effective and aesthetic design. One more, offline storage database support is a brilliant feature. It will alleviate the traffic through server machine and speed up the web experience by delegating tasks which manipulate insignificant personal information to client-side. Furthermore, enhancement on dealing media contents like audio, image and video is great. Amazing achievement!
Otherwise, there are some deprecated features as well. Some tags would be removed: strike, center, applet, etc but no problem because most of them are in the area of style-sheet rather than tag element and are able to be represented in different way with CSS(Cascading Style-Sheet).
Steve Jobs’ remark against Abode Flash increased interest upon HTML5. This is a kind of trend that Microsoft IE9 will strongly support it and the other browsers would go through the same way. And I think it would be quite good for web developers to read HTML5 specification document to understand the future format.
