Mutuality-
As per the modern-day need, the websites should be more interactive. So, the programmer needs to develop highly interactive web page. So, the latest Web pages needs to include- fluid animations, stream video, play music and Social Network sites like Facebook and Twitter into the websites.
Presently above features are integrated with the help of the web tools like Flash or Silverlight, Flex or java script. But these tools are very complex to develop a web page and they also increase the complexity of web page. With help of HTML5, we can embed-
• Video and audio
• High-quality drawings
• Charts
• Animation
• Many rich contents without using any plug-ins or third-party programs
Cleaner markup / Improved Code-
The code used in HTML 5 is very neat and clean.
Improved Semantics-
We can increase more the semantic value of web page by using HTML5 elements because its codes are very standard.
Elegant forms-
The form developed in HTML5 is very user friendly and their graphics is very improved in design. It enhances user interface. It provides different type of text inputs, search and different fields for different purpose.
Consistency-
The websites based on the new HTML5 has more consistency as compare to normal web site. For web programmer and developer, it is very easier to easily and quickly understand how a web page is structured.
Improved Accessibility-
Using HTML5 different technologies can enhance their features and the page designed by it, has improved understanding and look.
Fulfill the need of Web application-
HTML 5 has many emerging new features and standards. The new features of HTML5 is to develop more easier application with effective front-ends, drag and drop tools, discussion boards, wikis and many more useful features.
Offline Application cache-
Different latest internet browsers have their own kind of caching mechanism. When after some time user again browses, he opens his computer, laptop and press the Back button in his browser. He can see his previous page that was opened previously. Although the user is not connected to the internet at that time. All this happen due to HTML 5. The developer can mention or specify the file which is cached by the browser, during development of web site. Therefore, that cached page loaded correctly when user is offline or he refreshes the page. This type of caching is very beneficial it gives many benefits as-
• files load much faster
• offline browsing
• reduced load on server
Client-side database-
As we know that the cookies are used to track unique user data. The cookie data is added with each HTTP request header. By using HTML5 user can reduce cookie size with help of session Storage and local Storage. They are two different storages in HTML5 in place of cookies.
Geo-location support-
Anybody can find your location in the world and also, he can share that location information to other people, with help of Geo-location support. We can also find out our IP address, our wireless network connection through it. User can find out; which cell tower his phone is connected. Dedicated GPS hardware also calculates latitude and longitude from data and information sent by satellites. The HTML5 has geo-location APIs that find the location. Geo-location can be directly accessed by any variable in HTML5-compatible browser-based application.
Overview and the various advantages of HTML5 are provided above. In case of HTML4, the programmers as well as developers use its own class/id names to provide various styles to elements: bottom, navigation, main, footer, menu, container, top nav, header, top, content, article, sidebar etc. After all, in HTML5 the various elements (<header> <footer> <nav> <section> <article>) are very easy to use. There are many more advantages of HTML5. In future the HTML5 will become an online web development tool or language.