Can I use HTML5 to build my pages and still be able to use Perl + mod_perl effectively?

mod_perl and pretty much any other component you can think of (PSGI, which you should really consider, web frameworks like Mojolicious, Catalyst and Dancer, etc.) are all agnostic to output format. You can use them to deliver JSON, PNG, PDF, HTML, plain text, HTML 5 or any other format you want.

What else would I need to consider?

If the actions on the server side take more than about 5 seconds, you need to think about how to execute them in the background, and provide feedback to the user when the action finishes. This article should give you the basic understanding on how to do such things, though there might be more modern tools available for doing it.

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In reply to Re: Perl + HTML5 + mod_perl? by moritz
in thread Perl + HTML5 + mod_perl? by mkhan

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