New technologies for web development
The paper gives an overview of the new features of web technologies and the formal specification and the establishment of uniform solu ti ns for technologies and functionalities which have already been in use through various hacks and plug-ins prop osed by web developers.
Abstract
The paper gives an overview of the new features of web technologies. The general idea of the new version of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language ), i.e. HTML5, and other tools presented in this pa per is the formal specification and the establishment of uniform solu ti ns for technologies and functionalities which ha ve already been in use through various hacks and plug-ins prop osed by web developers. Many of these functionaliti es will now be implemented in browsers. The applications can ac cess these functionalities through newly defined ap plication programming interfaces. The latter include support for multimedia, dynamic graphic rendering, geolocat ion, multithreading, local data storage etc. HTML5 also int roduces semantic markup, which can be used for mark ing the document structure as well as its elements and data . The new version of HTML enforces strict separatio n of the page content from its style. The styling can only b e done using CSS ( Cascading Style Sheets ) language. The new CSS version, i.e. CSS3, has a modular structure, in w h ch different modules define different styling fea tures. The development cycles of the individual modules are in dependent as well as their support and implementati o in various browsers.