HTML5 is the latest version of HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) which is also referred to as World Wide Web (www) primary language. This standard version of HTML has features and behaviours, as well as a larger set of technologies leading to the building of more diverse and powerful web sites and applications. It is a cooperation between W3C(World Wide Web Consortium) and WHATWG( Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group). HTML5 actually incorporates three main kinds of code – HTML, CSS and JavaScript to take care of structure, presentation and implementation respectively, hence reducing the requirement of external plugins.
The advanced features of HTML5 that make it more user-friendly include-
- Addition of new attributes
- Addition of new parsing rules in order to enhance its flexibility
- Supporting Web SQL, i.e. allows implementation of standards for storing data in SQL databases
- Allowing offline editing
- Supporting Protocol and MIME handler registration simultaneously
- Encouragement of semantic(markup)
