Stefano Passatordi's blog

For sure, you have already heard about the new HTML 5. The project started in June 2004 under the name Web Applications 1.0, the specification is still a working draft, not a W3C recommendation, and thus not stable!

Here you’ll find a nice and cool presentation of the new features of HTML 5. Unfortunately, none of the existing browsers have implemented a full support for HTML 5 (since it’s just a working draft). At this page you’ll find all the information about the status of the art for each browser.

Some features I liked the most:

- DOM Selectors (jQuery style)

- Web Workers (multithreading page, cool!!)

- Native Comet support (finally!)

- Drag files from desktop (still to be implemented)

- Geolocation (we will not pay anymore specific services to find out the location of our users)

- Audio and Video support (no more flash or silverlight required)

- Automatic CSS text wrapping

- Round corners

- CSS Transform and animation

HTML 5 will be a draft for many years but almost all major browsers are implementing it, so in a few years (maybe months) we will take advantage of all the above cool features with a minimum effort.

Thanks and stay tuned!

Stefano Passatordi