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Key Features of HTML5

                 Here are the key features of  HTML5:
                   You can easily add music and videos to websites, just like you add pictures.
                    HTML5 works well on all the big web browsers,

                   so no matter which one you use, things should                        Tech Fact
                   look and work the same.                                  HTML language was redesigned by
                    It's made to work smoothly even if your internet      Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. It is a subset
                   is  slow, so  you  won't  have  to  wait  forever for     of Standard Generalized Markup
                   pages to load.                                                   Language (SGML).
                   HTML5 makes it easy to create games that work
                 well on mobile devices.

                   You can draw pictures right on the webpage using Canvas feature.

                 Key differences between HTML and HTML5


                                      HTML                                              HTML5
                  It  does  not  support  audio  and  video  support

                  without the use of flash player which is a software   It supports audio and video with the use of <audio>
                  used to view multimedia content.                 and <video> tags.
                  It works with all old browsers.                  It is supported by all new browsers.

                  <HTML>, <BODY> and <HEAD> tags are               These tags  can be omitted while writing HTML
                  mandatory while writing a HTML code.             code.

                  Not possible to draw shapes like circle, rectangle
                  and triangle.                                    These shapes can be drawn with HTML5.




                       HTML EDITORS


                 Editors are tools or software's used for editing and creating programs. An HTML editor is a software
                 for editing and creating HTML code that is used for websites.
                 There are two types of HTML editors:

                 1.  WYSIWYG  Editors: WYSIWYG  means  “What  you  See  Is What  You  Get”  pronounced  as
                    (WIZ-ee-wig). These editors allow the users to see and edit the content in a form that would appear
                    as it would when displayed on an interface.

                    For example, Adobe Dreamweaver CC, Froala etc.
                 2.   Text Editors: In this type of editors, we can create and modify the HTML documents using normal
                    text editors. The user should have a proper knowledge of the HTML commands to develop a web
                    page. For example, Notepad (PC) or TextEdit (Mac)





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