Study on: HTML Vs HTML5 in Web Technologies

Abstract

HTML, Hypertext Markup Language is a primary language for developing web page. HTML4, XHTML, CSS and the HTML DOM Level2 are now replaced with HTML5. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard which was originally created in 1990 by Tim Lee Banner, standardized as HTML4 in 1997 and has been under development as of August 2011 by, Web Hypertext Application Working Group (WHATWG ). It is the new and elegant standard for HTML that provides web users and developers enhanced functionality. This new standard adds several exciting news features like drag and drop, multimedia, video playback, APIs, form control etc. and capabilities to HTML. HTML5 supplies web users to deliver rich content without the need for additional plug-ins and proprietary technologies. In this paper, we state the main differences between HTML & HTML5. We also dig statistical comparison of these.