Wednesday 16 January 2013

Technical Research: HTML 5

What is html 5?

Html 5 is the latest hypertext mark up language for constructing and presenting content on the world wide web and a core technology of the internet. It consists of three types of code: HTML, which provides structure; cascading style sheets (css), which take care of the presentation; and javascript, which makes things happen.

HTML 5 is designed to deliver practically everything you'd want to do online without requiring additional software such as browser plugins. It does everything from animation apps, music movies and can also be used to build complicated applications to run in the browser.


HTML 5 is also cross-platform which means you can you it on your laptop, notebook, smartphone, notebook, ultra book or tablet and it will work. If your browser supports HTML5 it should work flawlessly.


In particular HTML 5 adds new syntax features,  these include:


<video>

an element used for playing videos or movies partially replacing the object element.

<audio>

is a subject of the HTML 5 draft specification, investigating audio input, playback, synthesis as well as speech into text in the browser.

<canvas>

the canvas element is part of HTML 5 and allows for dynamic, scriptable rendering of 2D shapes and bitmap images. It is a low level, procedural model that updates a bitmap and does not have a built-in scene graph.

Other elements include the integration of scalable vector graphics (SVG) content that replaces the uses of generic <object> tags and MathML for mathematical formulas. These feature are designed to makes it easier to include and handle multimedia and graphical content of the web without having to resort to plugins and API's. Other new elements, such as <section> <article> <header> and <nav> are designed to enrich the semantic content of a document.

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