Html 5 vs other technologies [closed]

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I have been reading a lot of stuff about HTML 5 recently. Something still looks very fuzzy to me and I hope somebody can help me understand it better.

Is HTML 5 for the "technology" to create the UI only? If I need to create an application to access bank accounts, how is it possible that HTML 5 will replace all other technologies? I mean there must be some kind of web service that the application has to use to access the data on the server and I can't see how that piece can be done with HTML 5.

manpreet 2 years ago

As with any new technology there is always a lot of speculation from commentators who don't really understand it... It always made me chuckle when I heard people talking about sites being 'Web 2.0' or 'Ajaxy'

Put simply:

HTML5 is just the same old html which we've been using since the nineties but with some improvements from HTML4&XHTML1. There are a few new tags, some of which aren't even new they've just been standardised.