Web Developers are commonly asked to create applications which stream video, display fluid animations, play music and integrate with Twitter and Facebook. In many cases if one wanted to achieve all of these things you had to leverage on a number of different technologies which probably included Flash, Flex or Silverlight.

This requirement to learn new languages and plugins can increase the time it takes to get a project out the door and the need for many different specialities can definitely increase the cost of getting something impressive done. HTML5 changes this – with support for high-quality animation, video and audio embedding as well as many other types of rich content, the future of the web may be arriving soon. Here’s what HTML5 will give you.

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