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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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