The Real HTML5
HTML5 is an iteration of HTML4.01 with some new features, a few deprecated or removed features, and some modified behaviors of existing features. Its aim is to standardize the many common hacks and design patterns that developers have used throughout the years and to expand in order to meet the demands of the modern Web, which is as much (if not more) about applications as it is about documents; indeed, the original proposal for what became HTML5 was called Web Applications 1.0.
New features in HTML5 include ways to structure documents for providing meaning and accessibility; I cover this in Chapter 2. HTML5 also has a whole range of new form functionality and UI controls that make it easier to build applications, which we’ll look ...
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