Learning HTML5


What is HTML5?

HTML5 will be the new standard for HTML contains new tag.

The previous version of HTML, HTML 4.01, came in 1999. The web has changed a lot since then.

HTML5 is still a work in progress. However, the major browsers support many of the new HTML5 elements and APIs.

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


 Minimum HTML5 Document

This is a simple HTML5 code, with the minimum of required tags:

<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>

<body>
The content of the document......
</body>

</html>



New Feature of HTML5

Some of the most interesting new features in HTML5:

    The <canvas> element for 2D drawing
    The <video> and <audio> elements for media playback
    Support for local storage
    New content-specific elements, like <article>, <footer>, <header>, <nav>, <section>
    New form controls, like calendar, date, time, email, url, search

Browser Support for HTML5

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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