HTML5 Demo1 - Introduction
Section #1
HTML5 is the latest version of Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), invented by Tim Berners Lee, while employed at CERN. A W3C Recommendation was released by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 2014. The Recommendation was a collaborative effort by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) and W3C.
It introduces:
- new "semantic" markup
- Canvas element for 2D drawing
- Web Storage
- Extensions to the browser Document Object Model (DOM)
- Media playback
- Drag and Drop
Other related technologies associated with HTML5 but published as separate Recommendations are:
- Geolocation
- Web SQL Database
- Indexed Database API
- HTML5 File API
- Web workers
Here's a measure of what your browser can do: html5test.com