Most of the people don’t have any idea about HTML. Some are not interested in it because they consider it as difficult job, due to its codes. And even most of the peoples, including the blog designer, have no familiarity with HTML. Basically HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and it is the most common language used to create web pages. The basic HTML structure is composed of tags, but you can also embed images, videos, and load scripts from other languages, like Javascript, inside pages.
In fact HTML play an important role in creating a website. You can create a webpage with out proper knowledge of HTML. Therefore, it is considered as the back bone for a webpage, and with out HTML a webpage can’t work. It acts like blood in our body. And just like we can not survive with out blood, in the same way a webpage also can’t survive with out HTML.
I think that you will have some idea already about HTML. But what you might not know is that currently we are using the fourth revision or version of HTML, and it is called HTML 4.01, and that the next revision, called HTML 5.0, will completely change the web development segment.
Here I have tried to give the idea about some major game changers that we’ll see with HTML 5:
- · The elements will be more aligned with modern web design practices. Some of the new tags include
, - · The DOCTYPE was simplified to .
- · In HTML 5 you will be able to embed audio and video directly in the HTML code. Similarly there will be no need to install any external plugins. The two new elements for that are
- · Similarly in the new APIs, which stands for application programming interfaces, will be included. This will enable developers to add drag-n-drop features, document editing, drawing and so on.
But keep in mind that unfortunately we can’t say, and we are not sure that when HTML 5 will be adopted. The first public working draft with the HTML 5 specifications was published in the month of January of 2008. The last one was published in August of this year, and you can read it on the W3.org website.
In this category the major browsers are gradually incorporating HTML 5 specs, but it might be a while before they are fully compatible and before developers start using the language. If you are interested and want to test it, both Firefox 3.1 and Safari 3.1 should have support for some features. You can go to youtube.com/html5 to see a demo page built with HTML 5.