HTML5
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| Filename extension | .html |
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| Internet media type | text/html |
| Type code | TEXT |
| Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | index.html |
| Initial release | 28 October 2014 |
| Extended to | XHTML5 (XML-serialized HTML5) |
| Standard | WHATWG HTML |
| Open format? | Yes |
| Filename extension | .xhtml, .html |
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| Internet media type | application/xml, application/xhtml+xml |
| Developed by | World Wide Web Consortium and WHATWG |
| Type of format | Markup language |
| Extended from | XML, HTML5 |
| Open format? | Yes |
HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. It is the fifth and current version of the HTML standard.
It was published in October 2014 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia, while keeping it both easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices such as web browsers, parsers, etc. HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML 4, but also XHTML 1 and DOM Level 2 HTML.
HTML5 includes detailed processing models to encourage more interoperable implementations; it extends, improves and rationalizes the markup available for documents, and introduces markup and application programming interfaces (APIs) for complex web applications. For the same reasons, HTML5 is also a candidate for cross-platform mobile applications, because it includes features designed with low-powered devices in mind.
Many new syntactic features are included. To natively include and handle multimedia and graphical content, the new <video>, <audio> and <canvas> elements were added, and support for scalable vector graphics (SVG) content and MathML for mathematical formulas. To enrich the semantic content of documents, new page structure elements such as <main>, <section>, <article>, <header>, <footer>, <aside>, <nav> and <figure>, are added. New attributes are introduced, some elements and attributes have been removed, and others such as <a>, <cite> and <menu> have been changed, redefined or standardized.
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