Following are the few interesting stuff in HTML5 …
- A new audio element that represents a sound or audio stream.
- A new canvas element that provides scripts with a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly.
- A new nav element representing a section of a page that links to other pages or to parts within the page.
- A new video element for playing videos or movies.
- An API for selecting files from the local filesystem and reading all or part of their data—see the W3C’s companion File API document for more information.
- An event-based drag-and-drop mechanism.
- Support for microdata, which offers a simple way to embed semantic (meaningful) markup into HTML documents—see the W3C’s companion HTML Microdata document for more information.
- Support for spelling and grammar checking.
- Support for web storage, which makes it possible to store structured data in key/value pairs on the client side—see the W3C’s companion Web Storage document for more information.
- The elimination of the center and font elements because their effects can be achieved through CSS.
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http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1659407
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