HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, a core technology of the Internet. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (originally created in 1990 and most recently standardized as HTML4 in 1997) and as of June 2011 was still under development. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices (web browsers, parsers etc.). HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML4, but XHTML1 and DOM2HTML (particularly JavaScript) as well.
Following its immediate predecessors HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a response to the observation that the HTML and XHTML in common use on the World Wide Web is a mixture of features introduced by various specifications, along with those introduced by software products such as web browsers, those established by common practice, and the many syntax errors in existing web documents. It is also an attempt to define a single markup language that can be written in either HTML or XHTML syntax. It includes detailed processing models to encourage more interoperable implementations; it extends, improves and rationalises the markup available for documents, and introduces markup and APIs for complex web applications.
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In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about HTML5 right away, covering: HTML5, Adobe Wallaby, HTML5 File API, HTML5 in mobile devices, Talk:Lord of Ultima, Maqetta, Schema.org, Sencha Touch, The cache manifest in HTML5, HTML, Alt attribute, Blink element, Blockquote element, Canonical meta tag, Canvas element, CE-HTML, Character encodings in HTML, Character entity reference,
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