HTML 5 is short form for Hyper Text Markup Language version 5.

Its a language for structuring and presenting content on the world wide web. HTML began many years ago, with HTML version 1 and there has been tremendous improvement up to the latest HTML version 5. It allows you to create a unique website with powerful editing tools that make it easy to create a website.

HTML technology uses tags, HTML 5 has improved language support for multimidea making it easy to read and be easily understood. Some of the new tags on its syntax include <audio> <video> & <canvas> which make it easy to integrate video and audio components on a website, without having to use third party plug ins and APIs

HTML 5 will be flexible in error handling and has been designed with the intentions that the internet browsers will produce the same results in cases of incorrect syntax.

Some of the new APIs introduced in the HTML 5 include:

• Document editing
• Local storage also known as web storage,which works the same way as a cookie, but has a capacity to hold more information.
• Ability to drag & drop
• Timed media playbacks
• Web browsing history management
• Cross document messaging
• Web audio & video API’s

Other new features include:

• Ability to display both 2D and 3D components, by use of the <canvas> element
• Introduction of new elements
• Ability to host a local database such as SQL
• Support for other technologies such as CSS3
• Introduction of new attributes

However, even with the new features and syntax, HTML5 still requires integration with other web authoring technologies such as java scripts or CSS3 to provide web page animation. HTML 5 reduces the need for third party plugins especially from flash, and is device independent.

In conclusion, HTML 5 will be easier to use especially with experienced web developers and web masters due to the new features introduced.

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