What is HTML5?

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the code that is behind every webpage on the Internet. It controls how webpages look. You can use it to put a picture, song, text, and even embed a video into a webpage giving it shape and form. HTML was last revised in 1998 but until now it has undergone quite a few adjustments. Since 2004, HTML5 has been in development. The development of HTML5 is a slow ongoing process that will ultimately provide a better and simpler experience for Internet users and website developers.
HTML5 will make creating websites easier and simpler. “HTML5, according to people who would know, is the inevitable future of the Internet—we're told it will make our favorite web pages richer, faster or just vaguely better.” HTML5 offers more features that give developers more flexibility. They will be able to insert Web Videos and web apps right in the webpage instead of having the person at home on their computer download the video or app to use another app like Adobe Flash to watch a video. HTML5 consolidates all of these useful tools into one compact package. Regular HTML could only embed pictures in websites, with HTML5 you will be able to embed videos. Steve Jobs says that HTML5 “will win” against browser plug-ins like Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. In order to use Adobe Flash and Silverlight, you need to download it from the Internet and then it runs with your browser. With HTML5 you won’t need to do any downloading and that would make it take less time to load the video. “HTML5 replaces the fragile ecosystem of JavaScript, HTML, plug-ins and undocumented de facto standards with a rigorously specified standard,” says Bruce Lawson. The iPad is one of the first mobile devices to exclusively use HTML5. Steve Jobs is so confident in it that he is bold enough to say that Flash is “no longer necessary.” This may seem scary for some and for others great. The downside is that everyone will have to get used to it. People may be able to learn how to make websites easier but people may have to completely rebuild their websites if Flash suddenly stops its services.
Uploading videos is not the only benefit that HTML5 brings. You can edit text in a document or blog. Images and page elements can be easily be dragged and dropped, like icons on a desktop. It makes using a computer more natural. With things in the real world, when you want to move something, you just pick it up and place it where you want it. This requires much less code for Web developers and makes their lives much easier. It takes out a lot of complex parts and they can be more consistent and efficient.
HTML5 allows sites, like Gmail, to store data on your hard drive so that you can keep working without an Internet connection. Instead of downloading all of the applications that you use on your computer, the applications are run in the cloud. "HTML5 makes it much easier to make robust applications that are delivered over the Web rather than installed on desktop machines," Ford says. “Web apps like Gmail and Google Docs will act and feel as snappy and rich as their traditional software counterparts, Outlook and Office.”
With apps running in the cloud, this may save memory on your computer, but if you want to use one of those apps and don’t have an Internet connection, you are in trouble. The next thing that needs to be invented is free, easily accessible Internet. If we want to run everything in the cloud and access it from anywhere, we need to be able to access Internet everywhere. There are ways to get Internet in most places but at a price. I think that wireless Internet access should be free sine no one person owns it. I hope that one day, everyone will be able to have wireless Internet for free just like the radio or standard television. Then HTML5 will be in full effect and computers will need minimal memory since everything is instantly accessible.