What is HTML5?
HTML5 is the next
generation of HTML.
HTML5 will be the new standard for HTML, XHTML, and the HTML DOM.
The previous version of HTML came in 1999. The web has changed a
lot since then.
HTML5 is still a work in progress. However, most modern browsers
have some HTML5 support.
How Did HTML5 Get Started?
HTML5 is a cooperation between the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG).
WHATWG was working with web forms and applications, and W3C was
working with XHTML 2.0. In 2006, they decided to cooperate and create a new
version of HTML.
Some rules for HTML5 were established:
- New features should be based on HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript
- Reduce the need
for external plugins (like Flash)
- Better error
handling
- More markup to
replace scripting
- HTML5 should be
device independent
- The development
process should be visible to the public
New Features
Some of the most interesting new features in HTML5:
- The canvas
element for drawing
- The video and
audio elements for media playback
- Better support
for local offline storage
- New content
specific elements, like article, footer, header, nav, section
- New form
controls, like calendar, date, time, email, url, search
Browser Support
HTML5 is not yet an official standard, and no browsers have full
HTML5 support.
But all major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet
Explorer) continue to add new HTML5 features to their latest versions.
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