Name: Prasanna Varun Karmarkar
Bio: Associate Architect - Technology, Virtusa Corporation. Prasanna has over 16 years of combined work experience in the Software and Mining industries. He is a Mechanical Engineer from the College of Engineering, Osmania University, India and has worked for two years with Ingersoll Rand. After completing his Masters in Information Systems from Australia, he entered the IT Services field, initially working with Classic ASP for an International Card Services organization. Prasanna has lived and worked in the US for 10 years as a Content Management consultant for leading companies such as New York Life, Motorola and Time Warner, and has experience across diverse business verticals – Insurance, Investment Management, and Digital Media/Online Advertising. He is keen on staying abreast of technology trends and studying their impact on business and work-life balance. Prasanna is a committed environmentalist and an avid reader besides being an enthusiastic quizzer and an amateur musician.
Posts by prasannavk:
- HTML5 is monolithic, but browsers are not. It is misleading to divide browsers into “Supports Vs Not”. Instead, individual HTML5 feature support should be evaluated in terms of browsers.
- HTML5 is fully backward compatible. You can simply upgrade your doctype to HTML5 without changing any underlying code; the page is still valid and will still work. There is no need to panic or to throw away any page! Read the rest of this entry “
The Fifth Element (Part II) – Short Term Benefits
May 9th, 2011This post is in continuation of the earlier post on HTML5. Before looking into the day-to-day benefits HTML5 will offer, let’s do a quick sanity check:
The Fifth Element (Part I) – Long Term Benefits
April 28th, 2011HTML5 is W3C’s shiny new offering promising interoperability, speed and maintainability – almost everything, it would appear, but vacations in the tropics! It is going to live in ‘Webville’ for a while so let’s really get to know it. Sure, we can break the ice talking about the weather worldwide, but then, let’s really dig down and investigate HTML5’s personality and find out exactly what it can do. Chances are you may have already used HTML5 without realizing it, and chances are, you loved it – e.g., the file drag-and-drop feature in Google Docs. HTML5 was preceded by its reputation; now let us see if it delivers!
HTML5 will make web pages portable across devices, platforms and form factors – an idea that supports convergence with the proliferation of tablets and smart phones. Problems of varying resolutions can be artfully handled through use of related technologies like Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs). The fact that all browsers will support HTML5 represents the holy grail of page styling and interface design – i.e., cross browser compatibility, which means no more hacks, browser-sniffing or code-branching. Read the rest of this entry “
