Filename extension | .html, .htm |
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Internet media type | text/html |
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Type code | TEXT | ||||||||||
Uniform Type Identifier | public.html | ||||||||||
Developed by | World Wide Web Consortium and WHATWG | ||||||||||
Type of format | Markup language | ||||||||||
Extended from | SGML | ||||||||||
Extended to | XHTML5 | ||||||||||
Open format? | Yes | ||||||||||
Website | whatwg.org/html w3.org/TR/html5/ |
Following its immediate predecessors HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a response to the observation that the HTML and XHTML in common use on the World Wide Web is a mixture of features introduced by various specifications, along with those introduced by software products such as web browsers, those established by common practice, and the many syntax errors in existing web documents. It is also an attempt to define a single markup language that can be written in either HTML or XHTML syntax. It includes detailed processing models to encourage more interoperable implementations; it extends, improves and rationalises the markup available for documents, and introduces markup and application programming interfaces (API)s for complex web applications.
In particular, HTML5 adds many new syntactical features. These include the
<video>
, <audio>
, <header>
and <canvas>
elements, as well as the integration of SVG content. These features are designed to make it easy to include and handle multimedia and graphical content on the web without having to resort to proprietary plugins and APIs. Other new elements, such as <section>
, <article>
, <header>
, and <nav>
, are designed to enrich the semantic content of documents. New attributes have been introduced for the same purpose, while some elements and attributes have been removed. Some elements, such as <a>
, <cite>
and <menu>
have been changed, redefined or standardized. The APIs and document object model (DOM) are no longer afterthoughts, but are fundamental parts of the HTML5 specification.[2]
HTML5 also defines in some detail the required processing for invalid
documents, so that syntax errors will be treated uniformly by all
conforming browsers and other user agents.For More Details Visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5