HTML5 : An Introduction

Firefox, Safari, and Chrome support a few features outlined in it. Opera Mobile, Android browser and Safari for iPhone also support elements of it, Google’s Wave projects are depending on it, Chrome OS for netbooks relies on it for offline storage and most web developers are overjoyed about what it means. If you doesn’t know what i am talking about, So here it goes…

What is HTML5?
HTML5 is the next generation of HTML, superseding HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, and XHTML 1.1. HTML5, defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language. It provides new features that are necessary for modern web applications. It is a specification for how HTML, should be formatted and utilized to deliver text, images, multimedia, web apps, search forms, and anything else you see in your browser. HTML5 isn’t a software release, or a web development law. It’s a voted-upon and group-edited standard, written in broad fashion to accommodate different styles of development and the different thinking among web browser makers.

Flash, Silverlight, and other browser plug-ins are artificial solutions for a natural problem that HTML5 is trying to fix: Placing and managing interactive elements on a web page.

Features of HTML5

• Smarter forms
• Canvas drawing
• Offline storage
• Geolocation
• Native video and audio streaming support

See HTML5 in action
http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1
http://html5demos.com/
http://html5gallery.com/

Further for information regarding HTML5 please visit http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/