HTML5 is the next generation of HTML.
HTML5 will be the new standard for HTML, XHTML, and the HTML DOM.
The previous version of HTML came in 1999. The web has changed a lot since then.
HTML5 is still a work in progress. However, most modern browsers have some HTML5 support.
HTML5 is a cooperation between the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG).
WHATWG was working with web forms and applications, and W3C was working with XHTML 2.0. In 2006, they decided to cooperate and create a new version of HTML.
Some rules for HTML5 were established:
Some of the most interesting new features in HTML5:
HTML5 is not yet an official standard, and no browsers has full HTML5 support.
But all major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer) continues to add new HTML5 features to their latest versions.
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