This is an reaction writing to an article “A preview of HTML5” written by Lachlan Hunt on alistapart.com. This article introduces what HTML5 is, and shows examples of HTML5. Author introduces the background of HTML, structures of HTML5, new features of HTML5 , and the document representation. HTML5 gives authors to build websites or applications more flexible and interoperable by enhancing wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, and semantics.
First, HTML5 introduces a whole set of new elements that make it much easier to structure pages. Author shows an example of structure in previous version of HTML and describes what the change was. What I noticed was that structuring the page with new tags was much easier to read and write than that were used with <div> tags with “id”s. For example, simply writing <header> tag is quicker and easier than <div id = “header”>.
Second, embedding video and audio is much easier in HTML5 by using new video and audio elements. Examples of embedding video and audio shows that author has more options to show and control video or audio. Default user interface helps author to embed a video or audio much easier by using ‘controls’ attribute. The size of content could be controlled with ‘width’ and ‘height’ attributes.
HTML5 is developed for users to write code and build a website or application under more user friendly environment by serialization of HTML. My goal is to design web and application using the convenient functions of HTML5 as above, and to make the product more fun and engaging for users to interact.