Web Work
HTML5
There is a new HTML in town, and it is great.
Great and moving from the thing of the future to a practical solution to a lot of today’s web problems. HTML5 has tags for denoting articles, has ready elements for videos, has a whole set of new input elements and these things are practical and useful.
The scope of HTML5 though is more impressive still. Much of HTML5 takes the arts of development and moves it to the control of the designer creating a set of native elements for common problems. Validation of elements, caching of local information, creating rich control elements are all given over to designers.
Already I’ve been working with a client on a HTML5 web shop and while the results are on the back burner until a more widespread usage of HTML5 compliant browsers the experience showed a language surprisingly powerful and useful.
It is said that HTML5 will not be usable until 2022 but it seems that the language represents something of a set of best practice and something to aim for when transitioning from the current XHTML.