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5 Exciting Things to Look Forward to in HTML 5

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Dec 19, 2008

Summary

HTML 5 is the upcoming major revision of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the main method of marking up content for sharing on the World Wide Web. HTML's development stopped at HTML 4.01 in 1999, and since then web content has evolved so much that current HTML specifications are inadequate for today's requirements.

HTML 5 aims to improve HTML's interoperability and address the growing demand for more diverse and complex web content. It also addresses HTML 4's lacking features for web applications. In this post, we'll look at 5 exciting new features in HTML 5.

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This is a guest post by Jacob Gube, a web developer/designer and author of Six Revisions, a blog on web development and design.

A bit of history

The conceptual thinking for HTML 5 began in late 2003. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organization that oversees the web's standard protocols and guidelines, expressed interest in the HTML 5 draft originally developed by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), a group formed in 2004 consisting of representatives of App

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