Hi all
After HTML came HTML 2, 3, 4 and now the latest, HTML 5, What is it??

HTML 5 is a new version of HTML and XHTML. It is a standard structure and content to make the World Wide Web The new standard includes features such as video playback, drag-and-that previously depended on third-party browser plug-ins such as Flash, Microsoft Silverlight and Google Gears.

Hi Riyaa,

HTML 5 is also a standard for creation and presentation of content on the World Wide Web.

Effects of HTML 5
* HTML 5 will enable a web designer to tell the search engines how to segment a page. Segmentation is the separation of a page into several separate parts like headers, footers, menu, main content etc.

* The introduction of a new <article> tag will allow the marking of separate entries in an online publication, like a blog or a magazine. It will do away with the <div> tag.

* The new <section> tag in HTML 5 can be used to identify separate sections on a page, chapter or a book. Each section can then have its separate HTML heading.

* <Header> tag in HTML 5, not the same as the head element, is a blessing for SEO experts because of its flexibility. The <header> tag, unlike <H1> tag, can contain a lot of stuff, including H1, H2, H3 elements, paragraphs of text and hard-coded links.

* Another feature, the <footer> tag, though does not allow the inclusion of information like the <header> tag, can still prove to be useful for SEO purposes.

* One of the most important new tags would be the <nav> tag, which can be used to identify a collection of links to other pages.


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I think HTML 5 is an exciting thing that I will be studying in the next couple of months..

HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML the last version was 4.01 released in 1997. some of the advantages are

Improved CodeGreater ConsistencyImproved SemanticsImproved Accessibility

Its being developed as the next major revision of HTML the core markup language of the World Wide Web.

HtML5 is nothing we'll have to worry about for another 4 years or so.

Remember, htML4 wasn't a standard until about 2001-2002

HtML5 is nothing we'll have to worry about for another 4 years or so.

That's where you're wrong. Safari has the most support for HTML5, Firefox isn't far behind. There is plenty of HTML5 you can use today, and you should be using what you can for progressive enhancement.

Originally Posted by LadynRed

That's where you're wrong. Safari has the most support for HTML5, Firefox isn't far behind. There is plenty of HTML5 you can use today, and you should be using what you can for progressive enhancement.

Exactly, there's a big difference between CAN and MUST.

HALF of all web users have no support for HTML5. None of your customers are going to want a website that half of their potential customers can't see or use.

So you don't have to worry about it until support is in excess of 90-95%. That day is a good 4 years off.

So as I said, you don't have to worry about it... if you want to play with it for fun, though, go right ahead.

Hi
HTML Experts: Is there is a special or secret way to use HTML while designing a webpage?For instance, if you just use "regular" HTML, will people still be able to see and use my website normally, even if they are not using Internet Explorer? For example, I always use Firefox. Other people use things like AOL or Opera to browse the web.

There are no 'secret ways' to use HTML. All browsers understand standard HTML and render it the same way. However, using specific HTML 5 tags, such as <header>, <footer> etc. will NOT work because they're not all supporting it - yet. If you code using standards-compliant coding methods, then you can still be ready when all the browsers DO support HTML5.

Cross-browser compatibility is actually more of an issue with CSS and some scripting than it is with HTML itself.

So you don't have to worry about it until support is in excess of 90-95%. That day is a good 4 years off.

Possibly even longer.

HTML5 is not likely to be at "recommended" status until 2022, and if IE7 and IE8 hang about as long as IE6 has done there will still be a significant proportion of users on browsers that will not support HTML5.

IE7 is out of mainstream support already on some Operating Systems so will not be getting updated anymore.

HTML5 gets improved interoperability as well as decreased expansion costs by manufactures accurate system on how to switch all HTML elements as well as how to recuperate from errors. HTML5 is a new description of HTML plus XHTML.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

HTML5 is not likely to be at "recommended" status until 2022

I wouldn't say 2022. 2015 is reasonable. Look at SPARQL - it was "recommended" 2 years ago, and no one is using it yet.

no one is using it yet.

Completely inaccurate. There are lots of people using HTML5, not all the new tags yet, but they will be ready when browsers do support the new tags. It's part of progressive enhancement.

Youtube uses HTML 5 for video elements on the iPhone and iPad, since there's no flash on those devices. That's the most prominent example I can think of. Of course there's some progressive enhancement going on, since Firefox doesn't understand the MPEG4 file format, and IE doesn't understand the <video> tag yet.

For anyone that's developing web applications for mobile, <audio> and <video> elements are extremely important.

Originally Posted by smoseley

I wouldn't say 2022. 2015 is reasonable.

Not what Ian Hickson suggests, and he is a editor working on the HTML5 specification.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Not what Ian Hickson suggests, and he is a editor working on the HTML5 specification.

Geeze, I just read that whole article, and from the sound if it, HTML 5 might NEVER get fully implemented, if they go with the current plan. They want to define things like exactly how error handling is implemented (if you forget to close a tag or something), and they want there to be an official test suite where at a minimum two browsers pass according to the specification before they'll even call it a recommendation. The former idea is a good one, but it will take some work to get error handling working the same for all browsers. The latter idea is pretty much impossible, as it attempts to stymie browser vendors from getting creative and implementing their own ideas. Maybe it won't work out that way, but I'm skeptical that is a realistic to get even two browser vendors to do exactly the same thing.

The W3c only move at glacial speed on such things


If you read the status updates from the HTML Working Group you will se that in some areas they are still discussing the terminology to use.

"So that's five teas, seven coffees (three black), One Expresso and three diet cokes"

You think company board meetings are difficult to get things approved? These people are supposed to have "in-person meetings" twice a year, there has been ONE in November 2007.

HTML 5 is the evolution of HTML and xHTML. The new HTML 5 features embedd tags that help us to add videos and other features similar to flash. Basically it is a competitor for Adobes Flash. also it is light on the server as well as on the browser. so it is well optimised.