Features of HTML5

HTML5 Step By Step Guide : Episode 01

Objectives:

  • What is HTML5?
  • Why HTML5?
  • What is new in HTML5?
  • Journey of HTML5?
  • Timeline of HTML5?

This tutorial is part of HTML5 Step by Step Guide. This is series of HTML5 Video Tutorials and there will be lot of tutorials after this.

This is HTML5 Step by Step Guide Episode 01, describes basics about HTML5 like how HTML5 came in picture, journey of HTML5, What is exactly HTML5 is?

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Let me know if you have any doubts or queries related to HTML5. Please feel free to contact me or comment below.

June 23, 2014 by HTML Tutorials 4

HTML5 VS. HTML4

Objectives :

  • What are the differences between HTML4 & HTML5?
  • What is new in HTML5?
  • What is deprecated from HTML5?

Here are the key differences between HTML4 & HTML5:

HTML4

HTML5

DOCTYPE is much longer as HTML4 is based on SGML-based.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN”

 DOCTYPE is required to enable standards mode for HTML documents.<!DOCTYPE html>

Audio and Video are not part of HTML4 specification.

Audio and Videos are integral part of HTML5 specifications e.g. <audio> and<video> tags.

Vector Graphics is possible with the help of technologies such as VML, Silverlight, Flash etc.

Vector graphics is integral part of HTML5 e.g. SVG and canvas.

It is almost impossible to get true GeoLocation of user browsing any website especially if it comes to mobile devices.

JS GeoLocation API in HTML5 helps identify location of user browsing any website (provided user allows it)

Browser cache can be used as temporary storage.

 Application Cache, Web SQL database and Web storage is available as client side storage. Accessible using JavaScript interface in HTML5 compliant browsers.

Web Sockets are not available. Generally used mechanisms are long polling and streaming.

Full duplex communication channels can be established with Server using Web Sockets. Accessible using JavaScript interface in HTML5 compliant browsers.

Does not allow JavaScript to run in browser. JS runs in same thread as browser interface.

Allows JavaScript to run in background. This is possible due to JS Web worker API in HTML5.
Works with all old browsers

Most of modern browser have started supporting HTML5 specification e.g. Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Chrome, Safari etc.

Enjoy coding now.

June 21, 2013 by HTML Tutorials Web Design Tutorials 0