HTML5 is the next major revision of the HTML standard superseding HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, and XHTML 1.1. HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web.HTML5 is a cooperation between the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG).
The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Google Gear.
New Features:
- HTML5 introduces a number of new elements and attributes that helps in building a modern websites. Following are great features introduced in HTML5. New Semantic Elements: These are like <header>, <footer>, and <section>.
- Forms 2.0: Improvements to HTML web forms where new attributes have been introduced for <input> tag.
- Persistent Local Storage: To achieve without resorting to third-party plugins.
- WebSocket : A a next-generation bidirectional communication technology for web applications.
- Server-Sent Events: HTML5 introduces events which flow from web server to the web browsers and they are called Server-Sent Events (SSE).
- Canvas: This supports a two-dimensional drawing surface that you can program with JavaScript.
- Audio & Video: You can embed audio or video on your web pages without resorting to third-party plugins.
- Geolocation: Now visitors can choose to share their physical location with your web application.
- Microdata: This lets you create your own vocabularies beyond HTML5 and extend your web pages with custom semantics.
- Drag and drop: Drag and drop the items from one location to another location on a the same webpage.
