What is New in HTML5?
The DOCTYPE declaration for HTML5 is very simple:
The character encoding (charset) declaration is also very simple:
meta charset="UTF-8"
HTML5 Example:
html head meta charset="UTF-8" title Title of the documentbody
Content of the document......
The default character encoding in HTML5 is UTF-8.
New HTML5 API's (Application Programming Interfaces)
The most interesting new API's in HTML5 are:
HTML GeolocationHTML Drag and DropHTML Local StorageHTML Application CacheHTML Web WorkersHTML SSE
Tip: HTML Local storage is a powerful replacement for cookies.
New HTML5 Elements
The most interesting new HTML5 elements are:
New semantic elements like header, footer, article, and section.
New attributes of form elements like number, date, time, calendar, and range.
New graphic elements: svg and canvas.
New multimedia elements: audio and video.
Removed Elements in HTML5
The following HTML4 elements have been removed in HTML5: