Overview of HTML5 and its evolution
New HTML5 (Hypertext Markup Language) is the latest fifth new web development web script creating version of old HTML4 version, which provides HTML web developer with advanced new responsive web design standard development language tools to create web pages, websites, web frameworks, and web designs of any type of new web format and web layout and create web pages in a new way with CSS and JavaScript. HTML5 web development script language provides all the new features and functions for development according to all the web development frameworks, layouts, designs, and tools that are currently existing.
So, let’s know about the old HTML script language from the present.
- HTML 1991-1999 – HTML web development script language was officially launched by Tim Berners-Lee in the year 1991 after the development of graphical web browsers in the Internet. The initial HTML version helped web developers to create basic and simple text-based web pages that could be viewed and edited in a text-based web browser. But this basic HTML version was helpful in creating text-based web pages, which did not fully support multimedia, 3D objects, animation, and forms, tables, boxes, and other advanced layouts.
- HTML 4.0 1999 – HTML 4.0 version was released in the year 1999, where HTML 4.0 Hypertext Markup Language provided some advanced and effective tools and controls for new types of web pages and website designs and web layout framework structure, HTML 4.0 version provided multimedia, animation, graphics, CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) along with JavaScript and other scripting language support. While CSS helped web developers to make boring and simple web pages and websites more responsive, attractive and commercial, HTML 4.0 version now helps in developing new webpage website layout structure.
- HTML4 Version Improvement – As the demand of time gradually spread worldwide internet and web development website became more popular, web developers developed and released HTML5 version to manage and control heavy web traffic, improve network speed and client side and server side service and to support dynamic and static web application support advanced multimedia, attractive web layout, dynamic website structure and to support new web applications along with supporting new web development tools and technologies available in today’s time.
HTML5 version development and features.
- Initial improvements 2004-2008 – In the year 2004, the HTML 4 Development Group analyzed the need for new HTML version development according to the network and web development demand of that time. Along with this, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) was officially entrusted with the task of new HTML version development design.
- W3C Interest 2007-2008 – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) also fully supported the HTML5 version development, after which the new HTML5 markup language development work was started under both WHATWG and W3C organizations.
- HTML5 Version Release (2014) – In the year 2014, the HTML5 version was officially released for the first time. Whereas HTML5 version completely promoted new multimedia, animation, and 3D object support for web developers with new tools, controls, and standard markup language support.
Main features of new HTML5 version.
Advanced HTML5 semantic elements.
Compared to the old HTML4 version, the new HTML5 version introduced new HTML5 tags or elements like <header>, <footer>, <article>, <aside>, <audio>, <section>, <video>, and <nav> to the web developers to advance web page document structure, web layout, responsive web page website.
HTML5 Multimedia Support.
For the first time in HTML5, audio and video objects can now be embedded directly in HTML web pages with <audio> and <video> tags, without any third party software library and plugin support.
HTML5 Canvas and SVG.
The <canvas> tag or element in HTML5 now helps to design, draw or embed 2D objects or shapes and images in a web page. Now, compared to simple graphics or images, web developers can embed high resolution Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support high resolution, resolution-independent graphics, images.
HTML5 Form Enhancements.
The HTML5 version provides new form input types and features, including new form elements or controls, such as <input type=”email”>, <input type=”date”>, and <input type=”range”>, in designing web page forms.
HTML5 Local Storage and Offline Support.
The HTML5 version launched the Web Data Storage API (Local Storage and Session Storage) support for storing system data from the user web browser to the local user computer hard drive and the Application Cache API features for offline access of client user web site applications.
HTML5 API and JavaScript support.
New features in HTML5 added new JavaScript API functions such as Web Workers, WebSockets, and IndexedDB API for improved web structure layout display, client real-time online communication, and World Wide Web geolocation for client-side data storage.
HTML5 improved disable user accessibility and internationalization.
ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) features help make website content and resources easier for Internet users with disabilities to access.
