I have seen HTML 5 coming up in near future. How does it differ from HTML 4, which has been 'in' for so many years in web development?
thanks
A:
If you are hesitant to read through a thousand pages of HTML5 specification, take a look at this article. It will give you a good overview of what HTML5 is all about, and it goes to explain how you can use HTML5 right now, since most A-grade browsers actually supports most of the new goodies; like the new HTML-elements and embedded video/audio.
roosteronacid
2009-12-30 10:19:33
You're exaggerating somewhat. The spec is only 660 pages.
Ms2ger
2009-12-30 11:51:43
+10
A:
Consider these images (from www.alistapart.com), the structure of a page is hugely different:
HTML4
HTML5
This is just an example, take a look on other comments for articles about this subject
Harmen
2009-12-30 10:19:34
@Alix Axel: No. There's just gonna be some new, more semantic HTML-elements to play around with.
roosteronacid
2009-12-30 10:29:28
No, it is not possible to specify arbitrary tags; these tags are just new tags:http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_reference.asp
Harmen
2009-12-30 10:30:03
+7
A:
Broadly speaking, there are four main areas of change:
Semantic markup, including the following tags:
<section><article><header><footer><nav><aside><hgroup>This also covers changes to the
<doctype>,<html>and<meta>tags, as well as link relations (the rel attribute on an<a>tag).Improved form support - mainly semantic additions to input types, and a few neat things like field autofocus and placeholder text.
Multimedia tags -
<video>,<audio>and<canvas>.<video>and<audio>are intended to improved better support for embedded media in the page;<canvas>is for programmatic two-dimensional bitmap drawing on the page through JavaScript.Changes to the DOM that are just accessible through JS -
navigator.geolocation,window.localStorage(storing user data offline),window.applicationCache(storing app data offline), web workers (multithreaded JavaScript, with some caveats)
Different parts of HTML are in different stages of specification and implementation - the form changes are poorly supported outside of Safari, the <video> tag is basically unusable in a cross-platform environment (without multiple video formats), and IE has built-in support for next to none of these changes.
The best place to read up on HTML5 that I've seen is Mark Pilgrim's excellent book in progress, Dive into HTML5
alunny
2009-12-30 10:33:08