What is the difference between HTML 5 and other older version?

**baggio** · 12-07-2012

I am reading on internet daily about HTML 5 being used by many websites and many other devices having support for it. I am a web designer too of a beginner level. I have designed some web pages and websites but they weren’t of the high quality. I wanted to know what’s so different about HTML 5 that is getting it in news daily. I mean, HTML 4 and HTML 3 were also once launched but they never made such huge news and all. Can someone tell me what’s so new about this HTML 5?

**KirtiPatel** · 12-07-2012

Actually HTML 5 isn’t fully developed web design language. It is still under development and people are still working on it. But it is developed enough o have a web page or website to be developed. Some developers have already started using it for developing the websites. The IPv4 is now overloaded with many websites and data and researchers are saying that moving on to IPv6 is the only way to reduce the burden on IPv4 and people let have new domains. So HTML 5 is developed or can be said being developed to fulfill the need of IPv6. Also many new devices like Nexus 7 have started having support for HTML 5.

**PhoebeM** · 12-07-2012

The first main difference you will see in HTML 5 is the way in which it is implemented. Before HTML 5, every other version of it used to have <html> tag as its start. But now in HTML 5, you will need to use <!doctype html>. This major change has brought in because like the previous versions, HTML 5 doesn’t use SGML to work on. The fact is that HTML 5 is now a language in itself which provides us with this simplicity. The character type used in HTML 5 is UTF-8. If you want to develop an website using UTF-8, then you will have to use the tag <meta charset="UTF-8">.

**Elazar** · 12-07-2012

HTML 5 now recognizes web page in structures. Similar to XML document where the header, body, panels and other parts were separately worked upon, HTML 5 will too work in similar fashion. You will now find new tags in HTML 5 that will help to create such a good structured web page. The new tags introduced are as follows,

1.<section>: It will help to create a section for your web page.
2.<header> : it will help to create the header of the web page.
3.<footer> : it will help to create the footer of the web page.
4.<nav> : it will help to create the navigation on the web page.
5.<article> : it will help to create the article or primary content on the web page.
6.<aside> : it will help to create the extra sidebars on the web page.
7.<figure> : it will help to insert images in the article on the web page.

**Cauvery** · 13-07-2012

New inline elements have been introduced in HTML 5 that will help to integrate the time and date features in the web page. Also the tags will allow one to have components useful for marking certain part of the webpage. Some of the tags that come under section are,

<mark>: this tag denotes the marked content on the web page.
<time> : this tag will denote the content that has time and date.
<meter> : this tag denotes the fractions in the content or quantities. For example, disk usage or RAM capacity.
<progress> : this tag denoted the progress of some work or progress mentioned in the content.
There are also many tags that supports features like datetime, datetime-local, date, month, week, time, number, range, email and url

**AliyaK** · 13-07-2012

Unlike previous versions of HTML, this new version, that is, HTML 5 has support to integrate audio and video files in the webpage. Some of the tags for this purpose are,

<canvas> - You can use this tag to add a drawing space on your web page. Supported by Javascript, you can create workspace and tools for dynamic creation of graphs and images. It will be helpful to create and online image editors or creators.
<video> - You can use this tag to add an video to the webpage.
<audio> - You can use this tag to add audio to the webpage.

I found many other tags that were present in HTML 4 but not available in HTML 5. Some of them are acronym, applet, basefont, big, center, dir, font, frame, frameset, isindex, noframes, noscript, strike and tt.

**FarhaS** · 14-07-2012

By using HTML 5, one can create an simple website, complex website as well as an interactive websites. Also creating dynamic web pages has been made easy by use HTML 5. It will provide options and tools useful for creation of context menus in the web page. Using this feature one can create a dynamic webpage where one can right click to get a menu which provides more options. This will save a lot of work space and also add ease to the use of the page. The href tag has been removed in HTML 5 and one can anchor the external links in scripts with the main content. New tags for a sync features have been added in HTML 5. Using these tags, one can decide which content should be loaded after which content. This will help to maintain the less loading time for a page. If all the content loads at same time, then it might overload the browser and lead to freezing or crashing. This feature will help to protect the web page from it.

**Rust-18** · 14-07-2012

A <details> tag has been added in HTML 5 which will allow one to connect the standalone applications with internet. For example, if a standalone application has a tool, if one takes mouse on it, its details will be shown directly from the web page. This will help to reduce the size of an application considerably. A <datagrid> tag will allow the web page to be connected to other databases using HTML 5. A <menu> tag will help to create menus on the webpage for allowing more options. Another good tag that I found new in HTML 5 is the <command> tag. One can link multiple actions to certain dynamic activities on a web page.