How HTML5 Will Change the Web

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner looks beyond the codec and plug-in wars to examine nine areas where HTML5 will have a significant impact on Web development. From enabling more interactive graphics, to tapping local file storage, to geolocation, HTML5 is rife with rich capabilities — and may even improve our ability to secure applications delivered via the Web, Wayner writes. But the most important impact of HTML5 will be its ability to simplify Web development itself: 'HTML5 offers one language (JavaScript), one data model (XML and DOM), and one set of layout rules (CSS) to bind text, audio, video, and graphics. The challenge of making something beautiful is still immense, but it's simpler to work with a unified standard.'"

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I love flashblock

[anss123]

Will there be possible to have "CanvasBlock" on future browsers or are we stuck with CPU eating html5 animations?

CHANGE IS ALREADY HERE

[Digana]

ZOMBO

The one real data model: XML

[improfane]

Why are we using HTML5 and not XHTML 2?

XML abuses aside, XHTML is superior to HTML5.

HTML5 requires a more complex parser than XHTML ever will. XHTML can be validated for correctness, HTML5 is more difficult to do so.

I honestly don't understand the reason for following the HTML route. XHTML is already in an industry understood format that tools already exist for.

The market rarely reflects a superior technology. I still support XHTML. HTML5 is messy, ugly and a kludge.

All that needs to happen is to transfer some of the newer tags of HTML5 into XHTML. Perhaps we can borrow from the microformat peeps? Afterall, it's supposed to be modular.