HTML5 and Css3 Fundamentals

HTML5 and Css3 Fundamentals

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.