This is the first post of a multi-part series covering strategies that you might use to adopt HTML5 in your current or future corporate websites.

Introduction

HTML5 has many features which you’ve likely heard about or seen in various blog posts. With all of the publicity HTML5 has begun to hold weight as a marketing term and businesses are paying attention. In the near future we’ll see businesses want to leverage HTML5 to send a message that they are innovative and competitive.

Unfortunately many of the HTML5 features are not fully implemented in the newest versions of modern browsers. Older browsers lack any HTML5 support. This leaves us with a key question: “To what extent can I use HTML5 inside my enterprise application?”

In this blog series we will deliver a strategy you can use to start adopting HTML5 today. We’ll break down the strategy into the following posts:

  • Part 1: Simplified Syntax & Semantic Elements
  • Part 2: Form Enhancements
  • Part 3: Local & Session Storage:

Client storage is no longer part of the HTML5 specification. Nevertheless we’ve decided to cover client storage as it is still popular as a topic in HTML5 discussions and is implemented in many of the modern browsers.

  • Part 4: Video & Audio Elements