Basics of HTML5: Mobile, multilingual and multimedia-enabled

HTML5 promises possibilities for designing websites and apps, which have almost remained unimagined until now. Although it is not an official standard, Internet providers and web developers are already using HTML5. Many authoring tools are now capable of creating HTML5. Reason enough to take a closer look.

Text by Martin Schober

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Basics of HTML5: Mobile, multilingual and multimedia-enabled

The term “HTML5” means much more than the Hypertext Mark-up Language that it stood for originally. A simple definition could be: HTML5 is HTML, CSS3 and JavaScript.

HTML5 is a bundle of technologies, which are related only in the context of HTML, strictly speaking. The Hypertext Mark-up Language is extended to include many new elements, such as <video>, <svg>, <source> and <canvas>. The elements in turn come with their own elements, which can make up the full scope of HTML5 only through new JavaScript methods and JavaScript frameworks. This includes the layout language CSS3, soon CSS4, which is becoming more and more powerful. The language has also been expanded through new design elements. These elements ensure that a website can be rendered well even on a Smartphone.

The table below provides an overview of the scope of the technologies, which are more or less closely allied with ...