What’s new in HTML5?
Here’s a brief article about what’s new in HTML 5:
1. New Multimedia Tags
Nowadays, it’s hard to find website without some multimedia on them, that’s why it’s expected the multimedia tags to become a standard. Multimedia tags that are supported by HTML5 are video, audio and embed.
The embed tag has been used by Netscape Navigator and later by FF, instead of the <object> tag. Now, it’s an official HTML5 tag and you can use it to define embedded content.
2. New Section Tags
Is there a website without a header? What we used to do is to
define in the css file id attribute #header and in the top of the page to add <div id = “header”> … </div>. Now, we have <header> tag :)
I always wrap my site navigation with <ul> and <li> tags. But that is also changed by adding the <nav> tag.
The <section> tag will be used to to define external articles. This tag is supposed to wrap, for example, an excerpt for an article that is not on your site, but on someone else.
The <aside> tag defines content that is an aside to the main content, ex. ro wrap related article links.
3. Other Semantic Tags
Other HTML5 semantic tags are <dialog>, <time>, <output>, <meter> and <mark>. They are used to wrap content with tags that semantically define what that content is.
4. <B> Tag in HTML 5
In HTML 4, it was considered a deprecated tag since text should
be made bold using CSS rules. However, in HTML 5, the <b> is back :) It should be used to mark text that is structurally bold, but not necessarily visually bold. It should wrap text that is more important than the rest of the sentences.
If want to learn more about HTML5, you can check out the article HTML5 Resources.
