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The Future of the Web

These are exciting times for web developers. There are lots of new platforms, technology and techniques to learn and start to use. Here we give a round up of what you can expect to see on a screen near you soon!

HTML5

HTML5 is the next generation of HTML - the language used to write web pages. It provides many new features and also standardises features we've been using for years. Some browsers already support certain HTML5 features and the others are sure to catch up soon. Some key features are:

  • New semantic elements like header, footer, and section
  • A two-dimensional drawing surface - canvas - that can be programmed with JavaScript
  • Video that you can embed on your web pages without resorting to third-party plugins
  • Geolocation to enable visitors can to to share their physical location with your web application
  • Offline web applications that work even after network access is interrupted
  • Improvements to HTML web forms
  • Microdata, which lets you create your own vocabularies beyond HTML5 and extend your web pages with custom semantics

This site has some HTML5 demos and examples.

CSS3

CSS is language used to describe the presentation of a web page. The latest version - CSS3 - offers lots of new possibilities to create exciting designs. As with HTML5, CSS3 isn't fully suppoerted by all browsers yet. Key features are:

  • Rounded corners with border-radius
  • Border image
  • Box shadow and text shadow
  • Transparency with RGBA and Opacity
  • Custom Web Fonts with @Font-Face
  • Multiple backgrounds

This site has some amazing CSS3 animation demos - no Flash!

Additional Resources

See these articles for more predictions of what the web of the future will hold:










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