About HTML5 for Flash Developer || Part-3

HTML5 is the fifth and latest version of the HTML standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/). Being a new version, it brought some new features to the existing HTML specification as well as removed some of the old outdated features. Many of these new and existing features are starting to closely resemble the feature set within Adobe Flash, thus opening many new facets of web development,

The development of the HTML5 specification is still a work in progress and is scheduled to be finalized and released sometime in 2014, but most of the modern web browsers today support many features of the specification already.

Generally, references to HTML5 refer to a suite of features and technologies surrounding the usage of not just HTML but Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as well as JavaScript. Without the use of CSS and JavaScript, plain HTML documents, even HTML5 documents, will remain extremely simplistic in their functionality and look and feel. Therefore, learning HTML5 is effectively learning three technologies simultaneously. As tedious as that sounds, Adobe Flash is setup in a very similar
way. The Flash IDE allows easy creation, editing, and referencing of assets to be used within your application. To integrate these assets into a dynamic interactive application requires the use of ActionScript. HTML5 is very similar to this such that HTML and CSS will be your Flash IDE and JavaScript will be the replacement for ActionScript. With all this in mind, let's continue by reviewing the standards on which HTML is built.

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