HTML 5

HTML 5

1. HTML5 Leads a Web Revolution

   • The newly updated presentation language CSS3 allows a developer to produce certain looks natively in the browser without constructing them
   • How could a humble mechanism for tagging Web pages have such a big impact? Is the hype surrounding the fifth version of HTML just a lot of geeky noise? And why should computer professionals care about it, anyway? The hype is justified;

2. HTML5 is at the heart of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) Open Web Platform, an umbrella term that changes over time and that refers to the markup language and various technologies that pertain to it.

3. The new specifications are a big help to the vendors, agrees Ian Hickson, a software engineer at Google and the company’s liaison with W3C

4. “There’s a near-infinite volume of things that the Web doesn’t support yet,” says Google’s Hickson. Asked about HTML6, he says,