Dear Comrades,
‘HTML 5 Tour in India’ Begins under the Aegis of the Department of Electronics & Information Technology
Bangalore will be the Next Stop
Bangalore will be the Next Stop
‘HTML 5.0 Tour in India’ began here today
under the aegis of TDIL Programme, Department of Electronics & Information
Technology. W3C Global Technology Leader Mr. Michael Smith delivered the detailed technical
lectures along with technology demonstration about the new features of HTML 5.0
standard. The Tour is being organized by W3C India office.
From
Delhi, the ‘HTML
5.0 Tour in India’ will be moving to 5 metro cities: Bangalore (19th
September), Hyderabad (21st September), Kolkata (23rd September)
and Pune (25th September) [details
available at http://www.w3cindia.in/HTML5-tour-2013/index.html].
The theme of the workshop in Bangalore will be, “Understanding the web: Core
features of the platform (HTML)”.
HTML5
is the next evolution of web development standards by which application
developers create end-user experience. HTML5 standard is evolved by W3C to meet
the goal of Open Web Platform. It provides a full programming environment for
cross-platform applications with access to device capabilities, video and
animations, graphics, style, typography, and other tools for digital
publishing, extensive network capabilities and more. One of the most important
benefits of HTML5 is that it is capable of making the Web useful on mobile and
wireless devices, which will be next paradigm shift for internet growth in
India.
The Web has
become the main channel for governments to deliver services to citizens. Hence,
Web technologies play a crucial role in the relationships between governments,
industry and common citizens. W3C interoperable, open web standards help to
ensure data accessibility independent of devices and platforms. The
present series of workshops will be a big step towards creating awareness about
the benefits and usage of HTML 5.0 standard for developing next generation web and mobile applications. The entire Software
and Mobile computing industry in India is expected to be benefited from these workshops – which
will provide a single unified platform for developers, web-designers ,
academicians and researchers to have one to one interaction about the upcoming
standard of HTML 5.0 and its applications.
This will accelerate the involvement of Indian ICT industry towards
development of the next generation web standards and its adoption in India.
Mobile
devices are increasingly being used as access devices for web based services /
applications. TDIL progamme is also focussing on
making the language technologies accessible through mobile device. In this direction HTML5 based
Mobile Machine Translation application has been developed and is being
demonstrated. Through this application people will be able get translation of
English Sentences into Indian Languages.
W3C
India has already initiated all round efforts to make this Tour successful and
many prominent industry players from both public and private sector have
already shown keen interest and actively involved in this programme.
PIB KKP(Release ID :99425)
