HTML 5

I am planning to research what is happening with alternatives to flash like html5. Though incomplete it seems pretty straightforward so far. I figure that this will be pretty useful in terms of internet stuff over the next year or two. I think this is at the core of the debate between Apple and Adobe. In the end the non proprietary thing will win I think, at least in terms of performance and quality, and you will be able to make it in a wysiwyg way in dreamweaver and flash anyway.

Here is a link to the first HTML 5 and CSS3 capability add in for Dreamweaver.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/html5pack/

And this link has code snippets for video and audio in the html 5 format.

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_reference.asp


Just click on the specific tags to get more code and information on how to apply it.

It seems that HTML 5 video, so that no plug in like flash is required will be well supported before too long, with options for it already in vimeo for example.

I understand that not all browsers have much support for the basics of html 5 yet. Still I think it is worth working towards where things are going rather than where they have been. Otherwise it is a matter of learning things that are obsolete before I have chance to work with them in a year or two.

It seems from this comparison that it is primarily internet explorer that is the prime problem (as usual).

http://caniuse.com/


Bernard