What is HTML5?

HTML5 is the standard for HTML.HTML5 is still in working progress. However, the main browsers support many of HTML5 new HTML5 APIs and elements. HTML5 is the work of World Wide Web Consortium and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group.
HTML5 highlights are:
•New features that are based on JavaScript, HTML, CSS and DOM.
•Minimize the need for external plugins
•Handles errors effectively
•Replaces scripting with more markup to
•Device independent
•Uses <canvas> element for the 2D drawing
•Introduces <video> and <audio> elements to be used for media playback
•Has local storage support
•New specific content elements, like<header>, <nav>, <article>, <footer> and <section>
•New controls form, like, date, time, , search , calendar, email, and url

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HTML5 is the latest version of hypertext markup language that helps build advanced features in the website. The <audio>, <video>, <header>, <footer> and many other tags are really useful to make web design easy. The other important point about HTML5 is supporting browsers. HTML5 requires some major browsers with some of their new versions.

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Hypertext Markup Language revision 5 (HTML5) is markup language for the structure and presentation of World Wide Web contents. HTML5 supports the traditional HTML and XHTML-style syntax and other new features in its markup, New APIs, XHTML and error handling.

• It is a new version of the language HTML, with new elements, attributes, and behaviors,
• It provides a larger set of technologies that allows more diverse and powerful Web sites and applications. This set is sometimes called HTML5 & friends and often shortened to just HTML5.

There is a little difference in syntax:

 

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HTML stands for hyper text markup Language and its used  to create a web page.HTML5 is the next major revision of the HTML standard superseding HTML 4.01.HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web.HTML5 Support latest versions of Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera.HTML5 is coming with lots of flexibility and would support the followings −

• Uppercase tag names.
• Quotes are optional for attributes.
• Attribute values are optional.
• Closing empty elements are optional.

HTML5 is the standard for HTML.HTML5 is still in working progress. However, the main browsers support many of HTML5 new HTML5 APIs and elements. HTML5 is the work of World Wide Web Consortium and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group.
HTML5 highlights are:
•New features that are based on JavaScript, HTML, CSS and DOM.
•Minimize the need for external plugins
•Handles errors effectively
•Replaces scripting with more markup to
•Device independent
•Uses <canvas> element for the 2D drawing
•Introduces <video> and <audio> elements to be used for media playback
•Has local storage support
•New specific content elements, like<header>, <nav>, <article>, <footer> and <section>
•New controls form, like, date, time, , search , calendar, email, and url

 

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HTML 5 is a software solution stack that defines the properties and behaviors of web page content by implementing a markup based pattern to it. HTML 5 is the fifth and current major version of HTML, and subsumes XHTML.

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