Firefox 3.5 and HTML 5

**Farrhad A** · 21 July, 2009, 18:01 PM

Hi,

I recently attended Mozilla Camp Mumbai.

There were many pro's speaking and it was a great experience.

There was an amazing presentation by Arun Ranganathan who is a Web Standards Evangalist at Mozilla...really kewl guy.

He showed some ABSOLUTELY CRAZY AND AMAZING stuff HTML 5 and FF3.5 can do.

One of the things was dynamically change a video and customize it with CSS- no need of flash is involved.

I am mailing Arun and requesting him if he can share that video with us.

What are your thoughts about HTML 5?

Cheers!

**rahuljrark** · 21 July, 2009, 18:14 PM

I had attended a seminar by Opera on Open Web Standards some months back. Even they talked about HTML 5 and showed many great examples about the video tag and many more things. HTML 5 is really exciting...but it will be fully implemented by the year 2022

**Farrhad A** · 21 July, 2009, 18:18 PM

I agree with you it will take long but I do not think THAT long.

HTML 5 is going to be the most popular version of HTML after HTML 3. HTML 4 was not too widely popular.

Browsers like FF 3.5 are the ones always up to day but the problem is <sarcasm>great browsers like Internet Explorer</sarcasm> are the ones which take time to update.

**Logan** · 21 July, 2009, 20:09 PM

For those of you that don't really understand HTML5....

HTML 5 on Wikipedia

**Farrhad A** · 21 July, 2009, 20:36 PM

Got a reply from Arun:

Absolutely! Feel free to share the presos. Currently, the videos are on videos.mozilla.org, but we'll soon put them on air.mozilla.org .

Here's an Ogg/Theora and an MP4 version of Arun's video message.

http://videos.mozilla.org/serv/air_m...apm-mumbai.ogv
http://videos.mozilla.org/serv/air_mozilla/Arun.mp4

Absolute must watch. You will see some of the awesome videa stuff he did with just simple code.

**Jesse** · 21 July, 2009, 20:46 PM

Watching that video now.
I have read about dynamically changing the video backgrounds etc. Some really great stuff to stay tuned to

**Sahil** · 22 July, 2009, 17:00 PM

HTML 5 is really awesome. However, it will take a lot of time to set in.

It brings about many changes like:

-Removes many tags
-No more <font> crap

Also, one important thing:

The current Doctype is:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

However in HTML 5 it is just something like:

<!DOCTYPE html>

**juliana** · 31 July, 2009, 18:40 PM

Originally Posted by Sahil

HTML 5 is really awesome. However, it will take a lot of time to set in.

It brings about many changes like:

-Removes many tags
-No more <font> crap

Also, one important thing:

The current Doctype is:

However in HTML 5 it is just something like:

I never knew all this. The DOCTYPE part was a real headache and I would always copy it from other pages :P

**Hrvoje** · 3 August, 2009, 10:54 AM

A great resource on HTML5 and how to use it today can be found on the HTML5 Doctors page HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML 5 today

Some very useful things to read and tryout. I would suggest to read some post about HTML5 on these places too:

1) Adactio (aka Jeremy Keith)
Adactio: Journal—The HTML5 Equilibrium

2) A List Apart article by John Allsopp
A List Apart: Articles: Semantics in HTML 5