It is not easy to give up things with which we are used to, but computing technology always wants change and it deserves changes. Advancement and push to more standardized, efficient techniques in technology is the moral of tech stories. HTML 4.1. is in use at present on almost all websites. HTML 5 is being developed and frequently in news stories.
What is HTML 5 ?
HTML 5 is the latest version of HTML and XHTML, the core markup language of www (world wide web). HTML 5 is being supported by all latest browsers. If you know HTML programming lanugage, things would be very clear to you. HTML 5 incorporates new api’s , new syntax, codes and tags in addition to the old ones. With HTML 5, the need of adobe flash player to play website-embedded videos could be eliminated. HTMl 5 adds to offline storage and use of websites more efficiently. HTML 5 would manage RIA (Rich Internet Applications) efficiently and without the need to use third party browser plugins.
Basic differences between HTML4 and HTML5
- HTML4 supports the ‘tag soup’ i.e. the ability to inscribe malformed code and get them accurately on the document. But there are no written rules or guidelines for doing this. This implies that malformed documents are to be tested on various browsers.
- To tackle this issue, HTML5 is being developed in such a way so that the developers need not waste their time and efforts in creating an error free web page.
- Unlike its predecessor, HTML5 also includes many new tags and also new names for older tags with extra features like: local storage wherein a lot of information can be stored, JS-based hacks or Flash, validation form etc. so as to make the applications easy for the developers and speedier for the users.
Differences from HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.x
The following is a cursory list of differences and some specific examples.
- New parsing rules oriented towards flexible parsing and compatibility; not based on SGML
- Ability to use inline SVG and MathML in text/html
- New elements – section, article, footer, audio, video, progress, nav, meter, time, aside, canvas, hgroup
- New types of form controls – dates and times, email, url, search
- New attributes – ping (on a and area), charset (on meta), async (on script)
- Global attributes (that can be applied for every element) – id, tabindex, hidden, data-* (custom data attributes)
- Forms will get support for PUT and DELETE methods too instead of just GET and POST (see Representational State Transfer for use cases)
- Deprecated elements dropped – center, font, strike, frameset
As there is still interest in publishing a snapshot of HTML5, the W3C is still working on that (in conjunction with the WHATWG).
Because the specification is now a living document, we are today announcing two changes:
- The HTML specification will henceforth just be known as “HTML”, with the URL http://whatwg.org/html. (We will also continue to maintain the Web Applications 1.0 specification that contains HTML and a number of related APIs like Web Storage, Web Workers, and Server-Sent Events.)
- The WHATWG HTML spec can now be considered a “living standard”. It’s more mature than any version of the HTML specification to date, so it made no sense for us to keep referring to it as merely a draft. We will no longer be following the “snapshot” model of spec development, with the occasional “call for comments”, “call for implementations”, and so forth.
In practice, the WHATWG has basically been operating like this for years, and indeed we were going to change the name last year but ended up deciding to wait a bit since people still used the term “HTML5″ a lot. However, the term is now basically being used to mean anything Web-standards-related, so it’s time to move on!
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask them in the comments or on IRC. We’ll update the FAQ with the most commonly asked questions.
HTML5 Web Forms And Browser Support
HTML5 Web Form specifications are not yet complete, but some browsers are supporting many of the proposed features. I’ve been testing all of the new values in different browsers (want to send me an iPad so I can test, feel free … hint, hint). To see what browsers are supporting as of last week, read more »
It is not easy to give up things with which we are used to, but computing technology always wants change and it deserves changes. Advancement and push to more standardized, efficient techniques in technology is the moral of tech stories. HTML 4.1. is in use at present on almost all websites. HTML 5 is being developed and frequently in news stories.
What is HTML 5 ?
HTML 5 is the latest version of HTML and XHTML, the core markup language of www (world wide web). HTML 5 is being supported by all latest browsers. If you know HTML programming lanugage, things would be very clear to you. HTML 5 incorporates new api’s , new syntax, codes and tags in addition to the old ones. With HTML 5, the need of adobe flash player to play website-embedded videos could be eliminated. HTMl 5 adds to offline storage and use of websites more efficiently. HTML 5 would manage RIA (Rich Internet Applications) efficiently and without the need to use third party browser plugins.
Basic differences between HTML4 and HTML5
- HTML4 supports the ‘tag soup’ i.e. the ability to inscribe malformed code and get them accurately on the document. But there are no written rules or guidelines for doing this. This implies that malformed documents are to be tested on various browsers.
- To tackle this issue, HTML5 is being developed in such a way so that the developers need not waste their time and efforts in creating an error free web page.
- Unlike its predecessor, HTML5 also includes many new tags and also new names for older tags with extra features like: local storage wherein a lot of information can be stored, JS-based hacks or Flash, validation form etc. so as to make the applications easy for the developers and speedier for the users.
Differences from HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.x
The following is a cursory list of differences and some specific examples.
- New parsing rules oriented towards flexible parsing and compatibility; not based on SGML
- Ability to use inline SVG and MathML in text/html
- New elements – section, article, footer, audio, video, progress, nav, meter, time, aside, canvas, hgroup
- New types of form controls – dates and times, email, url, search
- New attributes – ping (on a and area), charset (on meta), async (on script)
- Global attributes (that can be applied for every element) – id, tabindex, hidden, data-* (custom data attributes)
- Forms will get support for PUT and DELETE methods too instead of just GET and POST (see Representational State Transfer for use cases)
- Deprecated elements dropped – center, font, strike, frameset
As there is still interest in publishing a snapshot of HTML5, the W3C is still working on that (in conjunction with the WHATWG).
Because the specification is now a living document, we are today announcing two changes:
- The HTML specification will henceforth just be known as “HTML”, with the URL http://whatwg.org/html. (We will also continue to maintain the Web Applications 1.0 specification that contains HTML and a number of related APIs like Web Storage, Web Workers, and Server-Sent Events.)
- The WHATWG HTML spec can now be considered a “living standard”. It’s more mature than any version of the HTML specification to date, so it made no sense for us to keep referring to it as merely a draft. We will no longer be following the “snapshot” model of spec development, with the occasional “call for comments”, “call for implementations”, and so forth.
In practice, the WHATWG has basically been operating like this for years, and indeed we were going to change the name last year but ended up deciding to wait a bit since people still used the term “HTML5″ a lot. However, the term is now basically being used to mean anything Web-standards-related, so it’s time to move on!
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask them in the comments or on IRC. We’ll update the FAQ with the most commonly asked questions.
HTML5 Web Forms And Browser Support
HTML5 Web Form specifications are not yet complete, but some browsers are supporting many of the proposed features. I’ve been testing all of the new values in different browsers (want to send me an iPad so I can test, feel free … hint, hint). To see what browsers are supporting as of last week, read more »
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