HTML5 as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2015-05-07
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917 words · ~4 min read
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hypertext markup language or HTML is the
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language that web pages are written in so just as a computer program executes
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code written in C++ or some other programming language a web browser will
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take HTML and translate it so you end up with a nice shiny web page on your
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monitor or tablet the last major revision of HTML version 4 came out in
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1997 but since then annual internet traffic has increased by many thousands
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of times so we've been long overdue for an update to the language that is the
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backbone of nearly everything you do online when HTML 4 made its debut most
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web pages had much simpler layouts and consisted mainly of static images gifs
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and text interactive elements required plugins such as Shockwave or Java and
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highquality streaming video or audio was unheard of as such html4 didn't have or
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need native support for a lot of the things that we now take for granted and
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then for a long time nothing changed well after sites like YouTube went
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mainstream and watching TV or listening to music online became the norm rather
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than the domain of a few computer enthusiasts in their basement somewhere
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most web browsers still relied on plugins and other resource hogging
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elements to properly handle this new content and this was never more evident
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than when the Apple iPhone showed up dominated the smartphone market then
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thanks to its browser's complete lack of support for flash it couldn't even
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access many of the fancy looking interactive websites of the time the
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issue was that flash is a closed standard owned by Adobe and required
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extra processing power on a mobile device like an iPhone resource intensive
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standards like flash can seriously cut into battery life Apple openly
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criticized Flash and other developers agreed that they needed an opsource
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standard that they could build modern websites around enter HTML 5 the first
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draft was published back in 2008 with the final version having been released
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only a few months ago in October 2014 HTML 5 was devised with two things
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in mind one the prevalence of streaming and interactive elements on the modern
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web and two the fact that so many people rely on mobile devices these days
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instead of the more traditional desktops and laptops possibly the biggest change
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is dedicated video and audio tags these
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tags allow HTML 5 supporting browsers to play Common video formats natively this
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makes things easier on both web developers who don't have to rely on
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thirdparty programming interfaces nearly as much to build web pages as well as on
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users who will be able to stream music and video with less of a performance hit
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and less battery drain HTML 5 offers more than just streaming enhancements
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though browsers that support HTML 5 will have better support for vector graphics
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which are commonly used for images other than photographs vector graphics can be
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resized without losing any quality making their use increasingly popular in
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modern websites that are designed to be displayed correctly on everything from
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your phone all the way to your TV HTML 5 will also offer better support for
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things like drag and drop and online document or even video editing which is
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increasingly important as we continue to do more and more things through a web
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browser like photo sharing and online file storage so as you're traveling
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around the web and trying to find ways to earn cheap Karma on Reddit or
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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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whether you can do more with less Hardware of course you might just not do
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that and spend more time actually enjoying your stupid gifs or whatever
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