Major HTML update unveiled
Jan 23rd, 2008 by RedPepper
The first major update to HTML in 10 years has been unveiled by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
The group has published the first public working draft for what it described as “major revision” to the mark-up language.
A lot has changed while the near the beginning dot-com days of December 1997 when HTML 4 was published, as developers, designers and users have unlocked the web’s potential. Web sites have changed from being a group of static pages to media-rich communities leveraging participation.
HTML 5 is intended to reveal this, with APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics, embedding and controlling multimedia, managing client-side data storage and editing parts of documents. Turning to new bread-and-butter stuff, HTML 5 will also make it easier to represent familiar page elements. A full list of changes can be found here.