Nov 1, 2007

HTML 5 - Adding semantics to the web

The W3C and WHATWG released Draft 1 of the new HTML 5 spec today. More at:

  • HTML 5 - W3C Editor's Draft 1 November 2007
  • HTML 5 - Working Draft — 1 November 2007
What is HTML 5?
HTML 5 is a new version of HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 addressing many of the issues of those specifications while at the same time enhancing (X)HTML to more adequately address Web applications. Besides defining a markup language that can be written in both HTML (HTML5) and XML (XHTML5) it also defines many APIs that form the basis of the Web architecture. These APIs are known to some as "DOM Level 0" and have never been documented. Yet they are extremely important for browser vendors to support existing Web content and for authors to be able to build Web applications.
[From WHATWG FAQ]

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