HTML 5

History of HTML?

The Hyper text markup language was begun in 1980. Tim Berners Lee who invented a protyped which is called ENQUIRE which was used to share documents. Also in 1989 he write a memo which was based on hypertext markup language system. And he write both about the browser and server softwares in past 1990’s. The first HTML was called as “HTML Tag” it was mentioned in the 1991 and it describe the 20 element of comprising and a design of hypertext markup language.  

HTML is markup language which web browser’s use to compose text and images or other pages visual or audible web pages. In default level every HTML markup are defined in the browser. Also these characteristic can be enhanced by the web page so many designer’s us CSS.  Also many of the text element found in 1988 which turn covers features of early HTML formatting language which was used for RUNOFF command which was developed in the 1990’s.

Berners Lee considered the HTML as an application of SGML. It was formally defined by the Engineering Task Force in 1933 it was the first proposal specification of the HTML. Berners Lee and Dan Connolly which was included an SGML Document Type Definition to identify the grammar.  After six month the draft expired and notable for the acknowledgment of the NCSA Mosaic Hyper Text Markup Format from late 1933.

What’s New?

The new HTML 5 is easy implement and easy to use, and it’s a “doctype” which is very simple and streamline. Here is small example

< ! doctype html >

The HTML 5 is not a part of SGML and it has instead a markup language all on its own. And the character set for HTML 5 is streamlined as well and it uses UTF-8 and you define just one meta tag: 

 

<meta charset = “UTF -8”>

HTML 5 recognizes the web page have structure, just like the books have the structure or any other XML documents. In the general WebPages there are body content, sidebars content plus headers, footer and other kinds of features. Also HTML 5 has created tags to support those elements here some examples:

• <section> - to define section
• <header> - defines the header
• <footer> - defines the footer
• <nav> - defines the navigation
• <article> - defines the article or primary content
• <aside> - defines extra content
• <figure> - defines images 

Also the new HTML 5 has a new kind of elements and keep them markup to do with time. For example here it is:

• <mark> - to indicate content that is marked
• <time> - to indicate content that is a time or date
• <meter> - to indicate content that is a fraction of a known range  
• <progress> - to indicate the progress of a task

 

Also the HTML 5 supports dynamic pages and it helps web application developers and there are many more features and it’s easy to create dynamic web pages. And here are some form types which support HTML 5:

• datetime
• datetime-local
• date
• month
• week
• time
• number
• range
• email
• url

The Browsing Compatibility

Here are browsers which supports HTML5:

Firefox 4

In Firefox many number of key elements are missing but it supports audio and videos implementation.

Chrome 10

Google chrome has many functional which supports html 5 and there are many of the features have not been added for google chrome. Also the audio and video with HD and highly render the web pages. It has got the best score for the HTML 5 compatibility.

Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer shows poor rendering and it won’t display the image in web pages. And sometimes when we open a web page in the bottom bar of the it shows an error icon and it mention as error on page cannot be displayed.   

Real Life Examples

• It helps to embed videos and audios
• It has a new video player which is sublime Video Player
• It gives a basic web page layout
• It has a editable content
• In HTML 5 we can embed Google maps and other kinds of maps
• Finally for business purposes we can embed graph for business websites