After receiving criticism from various parties, browser makers and web developers, Microsoft finally decided that HTML 5 will become the new standard for Internet Explorer (IE). This standardization of HTML 5 provides a variety of features and increased browser, such as Google, Mozilla and Apple.
‘As part of our future plans, Explorer team have been reviewing the draft of HTML 5 specification. Later we need the feedback and will discuss it, “said Adrian Bateman, program manager of Internet Explorer, as quoted, Monday (10/8/2009) W3C mailing list, published by Softpedia.
Adrian also said he would soon discuss the matter to the public, to get a better development. Related to that IE is now also received support both from Mozilla, the Apple, Google and Opera.
Unlike other browsers, IE 8 has not been support for some components of the draft of HTML 5, such as DOM Store, Cross Document Messaging, Cross Domain Messaging, and Ajax Navigation.
HTML 5 will become the new standard for HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0. Some interesting features are the future of video and audio tags, where the latter party developers can create applications richmedia, JavaScript-based. Geolocation technology is another important, and improved graphics capabilities of the web.