hypertext markup language or HTML is the
language that web pages are written in so just as a computer program executes
code written in C++ or some other programming language a web browser will
take HTML and translate it so you end up with a nice shiny web page on your
monitor or tablet the last major revision of HTML version 4 came out in
1997 but since then annual internet traffic has increased by many thousands
of times so we've been long overdue for an update to the language that is the
backbone of nearly everything you do online when HTML 4 made its debut most
web pages had much simpler layouts and consisted mainly of static images gifs
and text interactive elements required plugins such as Shockwave or Java and
highquality streaming video or audio was unheard of as such html4 didn't have or
need native support for a lot of the things that we now take for granted and
then for a long time nothing changed well after sites like YouTube went
mainstream and watching TV or listening to music online became the norm rather
than the domain of a few computer enthusiasts in their basement somewhere
most web browsers still relied on plugins and other resource hogging
elements to properly handle this new content and this was never more evident
than when the Apple iPhone showed up dominated the smartphone market then
thanks to its browser's complete lack of support for flash it couldn't even
access many of the fancy looking interactive websites of the time the
issue was that flash is a closed standard owned by Adobe and required
extra processing power on a mobile device like an iPhone resource intensive
standards like flash can seriously cut into battery life Apple openly
criticized Flash and other developers agreed that they needed an opsource
standard that they could build modern websites around enter HTML 5 the first
draft was published back in 2008 with the final version having been released
only a few months ago in October 2014 HTML 5 was devised with two things
in mind one the prevalence of streaming and interactive elements on the modern
web and two the fact that so many people rely on mobile devices these days
instead of the more traditional desktops and laptops possibly the biggest change
is dedicated video and audio tags these
tags allow HTML 5 supporting browsers to play Common video formats natively this
makes things easier on both web developers who don't have to rely on
thirdparty programming interfaces nearly as much to build web pages as well as on
users who will be able to stream music and video with less of a performance hit
and less battery drain HTML 5 offers more than just streaming enhancements
though browsers that support HTML 5 will have better support for vector graphics
which are commonly used for images other than photographs vector graphics can be
resized without losing any quality making their use increasingly popular in
modern websites that are designed to be displayed correctly on everything from
your phone all the way to your TV HTML 5 will also offer better support for
things like drag and drop and online document or even video editing which is
increasingly important as we continue to do more and more things through a web
browser like photo sharing and online file storage so as you're traveling
around the web and trying to find ways to earn cheap Karma on Reddit or
whatever else it is you're doing pay attention to subtle Chang in your browser and see if you can notice
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else it is on the web and noticing less and less on the technical side which is of course what HTML 5 was actually
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