Capabilities Developers want to see in HTML5

Posted By : Kiran Bisht | 09-Mar-2015

HTML5 has many new ideas that are gradually making their way into websites, but if you have worked with HTML5 then you know there is room for improvement. Let’s talk about the features and improvements that can make developing for the web quicker, better and simpler.

                                                

                                                                  

Hardened Authentication

 

It may be feasible to provide enough in the way of hard and fast authentication given how complicated it is to create trusted hardware, but the browser can offer way more than that. In spite of cookies, the browser can offer to sign tokens with embedded keys. These could be saved off the device in chips to stop anyone from stealing the secret key. Adding an API to the browser will enable websites to request enhanced digital signature. It could also be a dangerous thing if you put a lot of faith in it, but it would be just the next step up from cookies and session authentication.

 

 

Browser-sizing of imagery

 

How many pixels do an image need to look sharp and clear on any screen? It differs from desktop to mobile to laptop. Even window’s size changes the lowest resolution. But, HTML standard <img> tags only get one SRC, and this aims to one picture file that may or may not have too many or too little pixels for systematic rendering. If it has too much, the browser should downgrade the picture to display it, that leads to wastage of network bandwidth as well as the time. If it has too little, it will look saturated. An enhanced HTML protocol can suggest a desired height and width for your image, and also the server can deliver optimal resolution.

 

Pluggable languages

 

Do you like JavaScript? If so, this browser is best; if you don’t, it isn’t. The standard HTML browser only works with JavaScript, but for few reasons we are supposed to define that the kind of the script is text/javascript with every script tag. The HTML4 recommendations suggest using types such as text/tcl or text/vbscript, but nobody uses this. In the coming years, we could have stronger, pluggable set of languages. This can add more design choices and flexibility for developers.

 

Will this change divide internet into smaller groups? If there is stronger open source implementation, it could be embraced by all the browsers. It may be a little complicated to get websites to use a pluggable language for content created for large audience. JavaScript can continue to rule the broad web, but it can be an excellent option for specialized extensions that make use of a specialized language.

 

Should have better control over the video object

We may never be able to resolve the fight over the compression codec, so live with it. The current version has a rectangle with a sequence of frames from a video and gives control over a text track with subtitles, annotations etc. Some smart techies have began using this to coordinate the annotations with other DOM objects. But what about sync mechanism and enhanced callback hooks? And how about the capability to merge DOM with video, for example?

 

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Kiran Bisht is a Blogger and a Web Content Writer. She's a landscape photographer and a travel aficionado who loves traveling to the great Himalayas.

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