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Introduction To HTML5

HTML5 is the newest version of HTML that incorporates features from prior versions and adds new tools. It has a simplified DOCTYPE declaration and HTML element. The development of HTML5 began after HTML 4.01 and XHTML in order to create a more flexible standard. A working draft was released in 2012 and HTML5 is scheduled to be finalized by the end of 2014, with continued development of features through HTML5.1.

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Introduction To HTML5

HTML5 is the newest version of HTML that incorporates features from prior versions and adds new tools. It has a simplified DOCTYPE declaration and HTML element. The development of HTML5 began after HTML 4.01 and XHTML in order to create a more flexible standard. A working draft was released in 2012 and HTML5 is scheduled to be finalized by the end of 2014, with continued development of features through HTML5.1.

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Introduction to

HTML5
History of HTML
HTML first
1991
published

1995 HTML 2.0


After HTML 4.01 was released, focus
1997 HTML 3.2 shifted to XHTML and its stricter standards.
1999 HTML 4.01
XHTML 2.0 had very strict standards but
was abandoned in 2009 in favor of HTML5.
2000 XHTML 1.0

HTML5 is much more tolerant and can


2002 handle markup from all the prior versions.
- XHTML 2.0 A working draft was released in 2012 and it
2009
is scheduled to be finalized by the end of
2012 HTML5 2014.

2014 HTML5.1 HTML5.1 is currently under development


and expected to be finalized in late 2016.
What is HTML5?
 HTML5 is the newest version of HTML, only recently
gaining partial support by the makers of web browsers.
 It incorporates all features from earlier versions of HTML,
including the stricter XHTML.
 It adds a diverse set of new tools for the web developer
to use.
 It is still a work in progress. No browsers have full
HTML5 support. It will be many years – perhaps not
until 2018 or later - before being fully defined and
supported.
Goals of HTML5
 Support all existing web pages. With HTML5, there is no
requirement to go back and revise older websites.
 Reduce the need for external plugins and scripts to show
website content.
 Improve the semantic definition (i.e. meaning and
purpose) of page elements.
 Make the rendering of web content universal and
independent of the device being used.
 Handle web documents errors in a better and more
consistent fashion.
New Elements in HTML5

<article> <figcaption> <progress>


<aside> <footer> <section>
<audio> <header> <source>
<canvas> <hgroup> <svg>
<datalist> <mark> <time>
<figure> <nav> <video>

These are just some of the new elements introduced in HTML5. We will be
exploring each of these during this course.
Other New Features in HTML5
 Built-in audio and video support (without plugins)
 Enhanced form controls and attributes
 The Canvas (a way to draw directly on a web page)
 Drag and Drop functionality
 Support for CSS3 (the newer and more powerful version
of CSS)
 More advanced features for web developers, such as
data storage and offline applications.
First Look at HTML5
Remember the DOCTYPE declaration from XHTML?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"


"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

In HTML5, there is just one possible DOCTYPE declaration and it is simpler:

<!DOCTYPE html>

Just 15 characters!

The DOCTYPE tells the browser which type and version of document to
expect. This should be the last time the DOCTYPE is ever changed. From
now on, all future versions of HTML will use this same simplified declaration.
The <html> Element
This is what the <html> element looked like in XHTML:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Again, HTML5 simplifies this line:

<html lang="en">

The lang attribute in the <html> element declares which language the page
content is in. Though not strictly required, it should always be specified, as it
can assist search engines and screen readers.

Each of the world’s major languages has a two-character code, e.g. Spanish = "es",
French = "fr", German = "de", Chinese = "zh", Arabic = "ar".
The <head> Section
Here is a typical XHTML <head> section:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>My First XHTML Page</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>

And the HTML5 version:

<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>My First HTML5 Page</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>

Notice the simplified character set declaration, the shorter CSS stylesheet link
text, and the removal of the trailing slashes for these two lines.
Basic HTML5 Web Page
Putting the prior sections together, and now adding the <body> section and
closing tags, we have our first complete web page in HTML5:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>My First HTML5 Page</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>

<body>
<p>HTML5 is fun!</p>
</body>

</html>

Let's open this page in a web browser to see how it looks…


Viewing the HTML5 Web Page

Even though we used HTML5, the page looks exactly the same in a web
browser as it would in XHTML. Without looking at the source code, web
visitors will not know which version of HTML the page is in.

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