The new web. HTML5 and CSS Web Standards Solutions

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By embracing a web standards approach, HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions enables us to create web sites that not only look great in all modern browsers, but are also accessible to a wide variety of audiences across a range of platforms – from those browsing on everyday computers, to those accessing the web on the latest, emerging mobile devices.

The latest version of most web browsers support HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

These web standards are open, reliable, highly secure, and efficient. They allow web designers and developers to create advanced graphics, typography, animations, and transitions. Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web. And you can start using them today.

What is HTML5?

HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML, the core language of the World Wide Web.  These new instructions imbedded within the Web reduce the need for proprietary plug-in technologies like Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight.

HTML5 introduces a number of new elements and attributes that describe and render modern website design. Some of them are semantic replacements for common code. Others provide new functionality through a standardized interface that plays audio and video. Many elements from the old HTML 4.01 standard have been eliminated and replaced with Cascading Style Sheets. There is also a renewed emphasis on the importance of scripting like JavaScript in Web behavior.

The new HTML is backward compatible with common parsing of older versions of HTML. It comes with a new introductory line of code that senses older documents and interprets them.

See for yourself.

The latest version of Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox web browsers,  all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Make sure you have the most up to date version of your browser installed so you can take advantage of this new web standard — and the amazing things they enable web designers to do. IE 8 and 9 are not recommended.

These demonstrations show the technical capabilities of HTML5, from the way it handles video to the manner in which it can support photo galleries and audio features.

Apple HTML5 Demo

Television ads worth spreading

Ten favorite commercials.

* Chrysler: “Born of Fire” (Wieden+Kennedy) for chrysler Corp.

* The Nike Foundation: “Girl Effect, The Clock is Ticking” (Wieden+Kennedy)  “Beautifully executed NFP spot. support at  www.girl effect.com

* Dulux: “Dulux Walls” (Euro RSCG London) A color revolution “The “Let’s Color Project.” “Powerful community message meets inoffensive product placement.”

* Intel: “The Chase” (Venables Bell & Partners) “Multi, Multi, Multi, Media.”

* Nokia: “The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Character Animation” (Wieden + Kennedy London) “The first macro chase sequence.”

* Hornbach and HEIMAT Berlin: “Infinite House” (@radical.media) ” If you can imagine it you can build it.”

* The Topsy Foundation: “Selinah” (Ogilvy Johannesburg) “See what  your support at topsyfoundation@ogilvy.co.za can do in 90 seconds”

* Batelco: “Infinity” (FP7/DXB, Bahrain) “Bleeding edge CGI meets Toronto.”

* Savory Institute: “Changing Our Future” (Foresight Multimedia) “Profoundly simple, money making land degradation reversal program now underway in New Mexico, Tuscany and Zimbabwe .” More at http://www.savoryinstitute.com/deserts-grasslands/

* Target: “Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular” (Mother NY and Legs Media)