Are the browsers ready for HTML 5 ?
We have heard a lot about HTML5 in last couple of weeks. Apple does not want to go with flash technology and are adopting HTML5 as the new standard. Scribd has ditched flash in favor of HTML5.
Sounds pretty exciting huh !!
So let us dump what we have and start developing in HTML5.
Nope not so fast . Hold on to your hour horses. Yes it is true that HTML5 is becoming the new standard . But at this stage neither all the browsers are ready for HTML5 , nor the clients would be ready with new browsers. So you might have a new website/application built in HTML 5 , using new tags but the clients are still with IE6 !!
You do not want to land in this situation.
Aditya Yadav’s interview on Info q Deploying HTML 5, talks about some of issues around this new standard and he has put together an excellent table detailing compatibility level of each browser with HTML5 features.
