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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

5 Benefits of Websites using HTML5

Here’s an overview of the HTML5 advantages;
1.     Elegant Forms
HMTL5 allows creation of carefully crafted forms for easier accessibility, allowing better form fields such as better text inputs and search boxes. The data validations are smooth and avoid the need for JavaScript except for the browsers which do not support such forms. There are different types of text inputs, search and different fields for different purpose.
 2.     Offline Browsing
Websites can be easily viewed in an offline mode even when the user is not connected to his network. The offline application cache in HTML5 gives a better solution even if the browsers do not work correctly. The programmer codes the website in such a way that it defines the files that should be cached by the browser. It gives an opportunity to refresh the page offline and load it correctly. It helps to reduce the load on the server and quicker access to files offline as well.
 3.     User Friendly
HTML5 eliminates the use of plugins or any third party coding to embed audio and video, quality charts, drawing since this usability is built into the browsers. It makes life much easier for a programmer when it comes to efforts put for collaborating animations, streaming video, playing music and social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter etc. Earlier, web designing services included tools built on Flash, Silverlight or Flex.
4.     Mobile Friendly
Creating a Responsive Design is the need of the hour! The increasing use of mobile devices to access the websites has made it mandatory to improve the web designing services on Mobile devices. Mobile browsers have adopted HTML5 from the time Adobe announced the death of mobile flash. Programmers had to switch to HMTL5 to make it a responsive website and to develop a mobile web application development.

HTML5 is the most mobile ready tool for developing mobile sites and apps. Below are some meta tags that allow you to optimize for mobile:
  • Viewport: Allows you to define viewport widths and zoom settings
  • Full screen browsing: IOS specific values that allow Apple devices to display in full screen mode
  • Home Screen Icons: Like favicons on desktop, these icons are used to add favorites to the home screen of an IOS and Android mobile device 
5.     Geolocation support
Sharing your location is just at your fingertips with Geolocation, from friends to relatives to your loved ones is as now made easy with HTML5. There are many ways to figure out your location by means of your IP address, your wireless network connection, which cell tower your phone is talking to, or dedicated GPS hardware that calculates latitude and longitude from information sent by satellites in the sky. The newly updated HTML5 geolocation APIs make location directly available to any HTML5-compatible browser-based application.

We see HTML5 as the next big thing and become the most used online development language in the near future. It’ll make the website designers life simpler resulting in better designs. Catch up with it soon!!


Resources:
Compusoft Technologies is web designing company in Mumbai, India which provides web design, development and SEO services. A one stop solution for logo, banner, letterhead, brochure, business card and CD cover designing and also helping clients promoting their websites online.