"No question, the world is going HTML5," said Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at Gartner Symposium. Google's Eric Schmidt called it "the next step in browsers" while Apple's Steve Jobs bluntly claimed that it "will win". But what is this all about? 

HTML 4 is the most successful and widely used markup format but most web developers find problems creating interactive content due to the HTML 4 limitation. So in order to provide more flexibility an interoperability in more interactive and exciting websites and applications, HTML 5 was born. It addresses areas that have not been adequately addressed by its predecessors. For example, you can use an API to detect support for different video formats, play a video, pause, mute audio, track how much of the video has been downloaded, and everything Read more [...]