HTML5 is a core technology markup language used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and 5th revision of the already exisitng HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium. The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997. The new version of HTML i.e. the HTML5 has many new syntactic features. These features are designed to make it easy to include and handle multimedia and graphical content on the web without having to resort to proprietary plugins and APIs.
HTML5 provides native support for audio and video elements. With you will no longer need to download a plug-in to watch a YouTube video or listen to a song. HTML5 offers rich media support. Rich content is also accessible on any device, such as smartphones, tablets etc.HTML5 embedded video and audio files are less taxing on mobile devices' batteries, which becomes more important as we see more users embrace and rely on the mobile Web. HTML5 plays a fundamental role in helping you provide a consistent user experience across all media channels.
Booking Africa Advantages
- It is one of our core competencies to develop web apps / sites using HTML5
- With HTML5 all our websites and apps have greater consistency in terms of the HTML used to code a web page on one site compared to another
- It is easier for our designers and developers to know how a web page is structured
- It is easier for our developers to build and debug websites and applications in HTML5
- Improved accessibility - Different technologies can elaborate on the features with the help of HTML5, just by looking at the elements of the web page and its structure
- Our websites and apps built using HTML5 take advantage of the Geolocation feature to find out where you are in the world and sharing that information with people
- The all new HTML5 Geolocation APIs make location, whether generated via GPS or other methods, directly available to any HTML5-compatible browser-based application.