HTML5 will affect the web design job market

In the upcoming year, the internet will dramatically change. While logging on won't be any different, and the way the average user views it won't change much, either, the design behind its function will have evolved and become more universally integrated because of HTML5.

The series of alterations will affect businesses and designers alike. Each will have to quickly adapt to the language change in order to remain atop of their respective industries. For individuals who already hold web design jobs or web development jobs, the more they embrace the change the more likely they'll remain in contention for future job opportunities. However, not every expert is sold on the positive effects of HTML5. A few years back XHTML was launched, and developers were forced to make the switch, however, once it was implemented several disadvantages to the coding were discovered and the jump seemed more of a waste of time than anything else.

HTML5 does have some impacting additions that will be hard to ignore. The language takes into consideration the wide incorporation of mobile devices with a range of bandwidths and gives mobile devices the ability to easily access web pages no matter their complexity. Its greatest benefit by far is how HTML5 is expected to handle video, which has easily grown into one of the most widely used mediums for communicating ideas.

Today, most websites that showcase video files rely on third-party software, like Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. HTML5 is expected to bypass that step and allow designers to easily host their own video players on their websites, much like how they can with still pictures. This advantage will remove the need to go through third-party software, helping devices such as Android and iPhone smartphones view videos without having to support other video providers.

Another aspect of HTML5 that incorporates the latest trends in internet navigation is its improved tags feature, which utilizes established search engine optimization procedures and applies them to video files. The tags are bits of code that help browsers identify elements stored on certain websites. In HTML5, they're much easier to recognize. HTML5 will improve search engines' understanding of the structure and content of a video, which would provide greater accessibility to the masses. With the new feature, searches would result in a variety of different forms of media, including video as well as text.