Future of Web with HTML 5

By the end of second quarter of this year, majority of visitors of your website are going to have a glance of 3D content without plugins in the browser.

The implementation of HTML 5, along with JavaScript and CSS3, can integrate a lot many new features and frameworks into web applications, websites and web designs. These applications can reshape the perceptions of what a web browser and web standards can achieve. HTML 5 includes the aspects such as Canvas, tagging, DOCTYPE, Web Forms, Calendar, CSS3, Geolocation, and a few topics like CSS3, WOFF and SVG.

Beginning with the release of WebGL 1.0 by the Khronos group, this year is going to see major milestones and supports in the web industry. Microsoft has launched IE9 on March 14 and includes hardware accelerated WebGL support. Google has also enabled WebGL in Chrome and Firefox 4 RC (soon to be released) has also enabled WebGL support by default.

Using HTML 5 can enable to view 3D content without plugins. HTML5 not only offers 3D effects or creating web applications, but also also offers great advancements to how content — including text — is displayed and how users can interact with that text.

According to a report, the developers at Children's hospital Boston created the Brain Surface and Tractography Viewer by using Using JavaScript, jQuery and WebGL. They said that, “The implications of this type of technology for aiding in medical research are stunning. The fact that this all takes place in the web browser means that a researcher or doctor could explore MRI results from another part of the hospital — or another part of the globe.”

Shwetank Dixit, Web Evangelist, Opera Software said, “Previous versions like HTML 4 (.01) were web pages, static documents, while HTML has standards to focus web application. It provides more readable codes, lesser plugins and pains.”

"With HTML5, the browser is able to do pretty much everything you can do now in a regular app environment. What we're seeing internally is a bunch of web applications jumping on very quickly," Google Chrome OS Director Caesar Sengupta says. "I think people haven't [realized] the power of HTML5, and how quickly things are going to adapt and evolve." 

Posted in SRISYS Blog on March 19, 2011