HTML5

HTML5 is currently a W3C Working Draft and is intended to be the next major revision of the HTML standard. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop.

Related Topics:

• HTML - the predecessor of HTML5
• XHTML - the successor of HTML
• XML - Extensible Markup Language is a subset of SGML designed for delivery on the web
• CSS - Cascading Style Sheets to define the appearance and layout of content
• JavaScript - scripting language to create dynamic web pages, mainly used browser side
• MicroFormat - semantic markup HTML tags to convey metadata and other attributes

Related Links:

• http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html - HTML5 overview by W3C
• Wikipedia:HTML5 - HTML5 article on Wikipedia

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 2012-03-11

Discussion

I attended two HTML5 sessions at the Silicon Valley Code Camp conference this weekend. HTML5 is a very promising standard, and the latest Chrome, FF already support some of the new tags. It will take 10 years however until it is broadly deployed.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-10-11