Getting Our Terms Straight
There’s some confusion over what HTML5 actually is. There’s what the general public (and, for many of us, our clients) believe, and what it actually is. HTML5 is not a brand new platform that we use to build websites; it’s not a rich multimedia environment; it’s not a thing you enable to make your websites work across multiple devices. HTML5 is basically an attempt to evolve the Web to meet the demands of the way we use it today, which has mutated dramatically from its earliest iteration as a simple network of linked documents.
To the public at large, HTML5 has become a shorthand term for a series of related and complementary technologies, including CSS3, SVG, JavaScript APIs, and more. Although some developers are ...
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