Monday, May 12, 2014

HTML5, Myths and Reality

Five Myths About HTML5 You Shouldn't Believe | Lifehacker Australia:
" . . . Myth: HTML5 makes it easy to run on multiple devicesReality: “Different browser vendors are adopting HTML5 at different paces,” Phifer noted. And that creates future risks. “Browser vendors are notorious for extending standards. Many times those browser extensions get you into big trouble. Be careful about browsers. Don’t write to browsers or browser versions. We know from history that’s not smart, it hurts, it’s expensive.““If you have to use extensions, compartmentalise that. Make sure you can tweak that code without having to go through everything. But if you don’t have to, don’t do it at all.” If you’re after responsive design, you don’t need full-blown HTML5; most of the key features are already in CSS3. “Responsive design uses a built-in feature of CSS3, CSS Media Query, and allows you to build one site and lay out how you want things to look on different sizes.”
Myth: HTML5 has lousy performance
Reality: “HTML5 is performant, and it’s getting better every day — but depending on what you’re doing you may need to do something different For some mobile apps, snippets of native code to supplement the web code can work.” (read more at link above)

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