HTML5 and
CSS3 are more than new standards in the software development, the integration
of two standards are really powerful to build better modern web applications.
Let´s check
out the advantages and benefits of using this standards.
Backward Compatibility
Who never
has had issues and troubles, after to design a web site, and to note that your
site is not working in all the browsers? Wow! It cannot be happening! So HTML5
reduce this incompatibility.
More-Descriptive Markup
During the
evolution of HTML5, HTML has introduced some new Markups, but this time, this
markups are more descriptive.
Improved User Interfaces
Nowadays,
the appearance is such important as a good design inside the classes, methods,
interface, etc., for this reason the styles are cooler than before, with
rounded corners, sliders, calendars, date pickers HTML5 promises better
user-interface controls.
Improved Accessibility
The Screen
readers can easier to find elements like nav in the content, because are
defined with the nav and not as a div, like before.
Advanced Selectors
Thanks to
CSS3 you can identify odds and even rows of tables, all selected checkboxes, or
even the last paragraph in a group.
Visual Effects
To perform
shadows in texts and images, before it was very difficult to do, and now CSS3
help you to show shadows, gradients and to transform corners.
Multimedia with Less
Reliance on Plug-ins
Before, if
you needed to show a video in your web page, you had to use flash or other plugins,
now HTML5 and CSS3 count with elements to embed audio and video.