If you have read anything about HTML5, you'll know that most webmasters think it is the next best thing to appear on the internet. Everyone seems to be excited about it, but the truth is, there is still a lot of gossip, and a lot of over-rating of the new web language, and we shouldn't be thinking HTML5 just yet. Here are the reasons why we shouldn't jump on the HTML5 bandwagon just yet.
It's not Supported by all Browsers Yet
Yes, the newest browsers like Opera, Chrome, and the new Firefox supports HTML5, but nothing else does, and even those browsers have limited support for the new HTML5 programming. When you use those cool and new tags, you have to style them for backwards capability. You have to code all the CSS3 differently so that the browser can support it and even Firefox needs you to prefix the property names with - moz- titles. And if you want the site to be seen using Safari, you have to use the prefix -webkit-. So when everyone starts using IE7 or 8 (just think of all the people who are still using IE 6) then there are just too many hoops to jump through to make HTML5 work.
Once You Have all the Work Done No One Will Notice a Difference
Now once you have re-coded everything, everything looks the same. The reason why most webmasters love HTML5 is the ease with which it makes headers, footers and those boxes with rounded corners. Rounded corners are a part of Web 2.0 design, and its great that we will be able to make those rounded corners more easily, but we all generally know how to make them now.
What About the Cool New Audio/Video Capabilities of HTML5
Well its great that now audio and video can easily be added, but that's not anything really new. We can still do it using Adobe Flash and if you don't have Flash then you probably don't have the capabilities of running HTML5 either.
What about Mobile Browsing
Now when it comes to mobile browsing capabilities, HTML5 really does seem to be the way to go, but only for browsers that really have full HTML5 capabilities, and none of them have full capabilities yet.
SEO's are Praising the HTML5
SEO specialists believe that the new features on the HTML5 will give search engines more ease in figuring out how to value a given page and its links. They praise the new tags inside the HTML5 saying these tags will help in SEO by showing the search engines that what is located within these tags is not particularly relevant to SEO. But these website areas, or content located within these areas, are already of little importance to the search engines, so this particular new feature of HTML5 is of little help when it comes to SEO.
Will HTML5 Be Important
Sure HTML5 will be of great importance, but it just isn't at the moment. It will still be a couple of years before we can integrate it fully into our web development.
Jesse B Smith
About the Author: http://jessebsmith.com - just about anything web related, I'll write about it.
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