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The question is answered here. HTML5 is a new standard, which is still evolving, of, yes, HTML. HTML, if you didn’t know, stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. What began purely as data + formatting was soon added with logic (javascript) and embedded objects (flash, applets, etc.) The advent of AJAX took webpages to all new levels and webpages became web applications. However, for complex tasks web applications needed to rely upon plugins like flash to provide functionality that cannot be provided by simple HTML. On top of that, such plugins were proprietary to one company, not good for open standards. Hence, the need to add more to HTML in its next version 5.
You may wish to have a look at what HTML4 represented.
Two companies driving this standard are Apple and Google. The implementation or rather support for HTML5 is available (as it develops) with modern browsers like Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox. (IE9 might join fray).
HTML5 brings in new markups like <audio>, <video> and other specific navigation tags like <footer> in addition to the more generic <div> and <span>. Other stuff included are a 2D drawing canvas, offline storage database, among others. We shall discuss individual topics in more detail in further posts.
Some websites (mostly prototypes) are taking advantage of these new features: Youtube, Google Wave. And with the pending release of Apple iPad, which does not support flash, HTML5 markup becomes even more important.
So, lets begin a journey together that hopefully takes us far!
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