新一代網頁標準HTML 5W，成為網絡熱談，因為它不是一個品牌像Adobe FlashW，ICT或夕陽CA可以在考卷直接引用”HTML 5W”，現時仍未有任何教科書（包括長人出版社）提及這概念，故此園丁想在此列出HTML5的pros and cons（相對流行的動畫W軟件 Adobe FlashW）：
HTML 5W的好處：
- Open Source not Proprietary like Flash
- Uses less computer resources. Uses 20% of computer resources compared to 40% for Flash – this makes a big difference when someone is trying to view anything, regardless of their internet connection (DSL, Cable, Modem, T1, etc.)
- Improves video and audio quality – extensively – thus your Social Learning/Social Media experience has just increased infinitely; Vivemo, Blip.tv and YouTube (beta) are already offering videos in HTML5 players.
- Improved interactivity over Flash
- Eliminates plugins (could it be the end of Silverlight?) Flash requires a plugin (especially for updates)
- Enhanced multimedia
- APIs
- Localization
- Works in the iPadW Tablet and will work in other manufacture tablets, smartphones too – M-Learning to the next level. Oh, e-readers – sure down the pipeline.
- Not buggy – Flash is buggy
- Supports file drag and drop capabilities
- All the big browsers are supporting it i.e. Safari, Chrome, Microsoft IE9, Opera and soon FireFox (at time of writing, not yet)
- You can build courses in HTML5, as you would in Flash — thus as rapid e-learning authoring tools see this as common place, they will need to adapt, thus enabling HTML5 files to be inserted
- Mobile learning features that will far exceed anything that is possible today
HTML 5W的限制：
- video codecsW. Sadly, there is not one standard. Video codecs enable you to view video on your computer (they exist in your player for example), and are already installed. Sometimes, you may see the infamous, “unable to play video” or “codec not installed”, which means you are missing that codec. So, you have to go online to a codec directory and download the appropriate codec. Codecs exist for audio and video.