WHAT IS HTML5?

WHAT IS HTML5?Is a revisin of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the standard programming language for describing the contents and appearance of Web pages.GOALS FOR HTML5is to support for multimedia on mobile devices. New syntactic features were introduced to support this, such as video, audio and canvas tags. HTML5 also introduces new features which can really change the way users interact with documents including:Newparsingrules for enhanced flexibilityNewattributesElimination of outmoded or redundant attributesDrag and drop capabilities from one HTML5 document to anotherOffline editingMessaging enhancementsDetailed rules forparsingMIMEandprotocolhandler registrationA common standard for storing data in SQL databases (Web SQL)

WHAT IS NEW IN HTML5?- The DOCTYPE declaration for html5 is very simple: The character encoding (charset) declaration is also very simple: - HTML5 Example:

Title of the document

Content of the document......

NEW HTML5 ELEMENTSThe most interesting new elements are:Newsemanticelements like , , , and .New formcontrol attributeslike number, date, time, calendar, and range.Newgraphicelements: and .Newmultimediaelements: and .

In the chapterHTML5 Support, you will learn how to "teach" old browsers to handle HTML5 semantic.

NEW HTML5 APIs (APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES)The most interesting new API's are:HTML GeolocationHTML Drag and DropHTML Local StorageHTML Application CacheHTML Web WorkersHTML SSE

Local storage is a powerful replacement for cookies.

ELEMENTS REMOVED IN HTML5ElementUse instead

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CSSVERSIONS OF HTMLVersionYearTim Berners-Lee invented www1989Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML1991Dave Raggett drafted HTML+1993HTML Working Group defined HTML 2.01995W3C Recommended HTML 3.21997W3C Recommended HTML 4.011999W3C Recommended XHTML 1.02000HTML5 WHATWG First Public Draft2008HTML5 WHATWG Living Standard2012HTML5 W3C Final Recommendation2014FIN!