Monday, June 30, 2014

New Elements and Removed Elements in HTML5

As HTML is created in 1990 this become core technology for Internet. HTML is used to structuring and presenting content for World Wide Web. HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and initially managed by by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and later Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) also join to develop the HTML. HTML is a markup language and used to interpret web browsers. In 1995 HTML 2.0 was published and after two years HTML 3.2 was released. In 1997 January HTML 3.2 was published later same year month of December HTML 4 was released.

HTML5 is already ready to use by year of 2013, but the full and working version of HTML5 was officially released in 2014, HTML5 is a responsive design supported language, The new mobile phones and most of the tabs and other devices which are supporting internet is heavily increased in recent years, a research indicated in end of 2013 nearly one billion devices was supporting for HTML5.

While working on HTML5, team decided to Deprecate few tags from existing HTML. Here is the list of tags which are removed.
<acronym> - an acronym tag
<applet> - an applet call tag
<basefont> - an base font for the page
<big> - to make big text
<center> - to make centered text
<dir> - a directory list
<font> - used to make text font, size, and color
<frame> - a frame call,
<frameset> - a set of frames
<isindex> - a single-line input field
<noframes> - a noframe section for frames
<s> - strikethrough text
<strike> - strikethrough text
<tt> - teletype text
<u> - underlined text

But also there are lot more new tags are introduced in HTML5,
<article>
<aside >
<audio>
<canvas>
<command>
<datalist>
<details>
<embed>
<figure>
<footer>
<header>
<hgroup>
<keygen>
<mark>
<meter>
<nav>
<output>
<progress>
<ruby>
<section>
<time>
<video>
<wbr>

The above tags are made developers job easy, You can read more about HTML5 from following links

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/html5/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element#acronym

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