HTML 5: Where Art Thou?
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Can you guess what the most important piece of software is on a personal computer? It’s not Notepad, it’s not any office productivity suite, and it’s not Solitaire. Certainly the most important piece of software, at least since the 90’s, is the web browser. The web browser has brought the whole world together digitally through web email, shopping web sites, and Facebook. (And yes, you can also use a web browser as a notepad, office suite, and you can play Solitaire with one, too.)
Content on the web has evolved from simple text and tables to elaborate layouts of page intermixed with images, audio, and video. The underlying HTML used to display this rich content has evolved as well. From the early workings of HTML 1 all the way to HTML 4, HTML has seen a steady growth. The current version, HTML 4, is great. The language allows for embedded objects (like Flash), and other neat stuff.
HTML 1 (left) to HTML 4 (right)
