HTML 5 finally opened as a recommendation of W3C, the standard update for about 15 years

BySlavik_V

It is the latest standard of HTML technology that supports the world's Internet "HTML5"Was released as a recommendation.

HTML 5 Recommendation - An important milestone in open web platform achieved
http://www.w3.org/2014/10/html5-rec.html.ja

HTML 5 is a new recommendation following "HTML 4.0" in 1997 and "HTML 4.01" in 1999, and it has taken in more of the current state of the web showing evolution, development, and spread rapidly. Regarding this recommendation release,The World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) announces the following statements in the press release.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released HTML5, the fifth version of the format HTML used to construct web pages and web applications, as a recommendation, and laid the foundation for an open web platform It was. HTML 5 provides functions for application development that application developers and application industries can trust for years to come. HTML 5 is now a wider device and reduces the development cost of applications that are available to users around the world and have rich features.

Tim Bernards-Lee, director of the W3C, says, "Viewing video and audio on a browser or making a call on a browser is now accepted as a matter of course." "I hope to enable photos and sharing, getting news, searching for information from anywhere, from any device.HTML 5 and the open web platform will meet the user's further expectations."

HTML 5 incorporates web technologies that have evolved constantly over the last 15 years. "Recommendation" is officially announced at the stage when all technical specifications are confirmed, it will be finally established as "official standard" at the stage when the recommendation is announced. Although HTML5, which is the recommendation for the first time in about 15 years from HTML 4.01, incorporates new technologies, there are things that have been changed or deleted, and details can be checked on the following pages is.

HTML5 Differences from HTML 4
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/


One of the big changes brought about by HTML 5 is that browsers correspond natively to the playback of multimedia files that were conventionally supported by plug-in bases such as Flash Player and Windows Media Player. It is a well-known episode that Apple's iOS does not have Flash, but if it is a browser compatible with HTML5 you can avoid suffering from differences in the environment.

In addition, since the number of instructions that can be executed by HTML description is increasing, it is now possible to create contents that required program correspondence only with the description of HTML, reducing the labor and cost required for work It is one of the merits that leads to. Furthermore, it is different from a native application downloaded from the App Store, Google Play, etc. on a smartphoneWeb applicationAlthough it is getting widespread, this is actually based on HTML 5 as its foundation.

Nonetheless, there are already many browsers doing HTML 5 compatibility, so from the point of view of the user it should not be immediately felt that such a big change is occurring. However, it is a matter of time that the contents of the pages and websites you usually watch are changing greatly in the future, more conveniently, more expressions come out, and more hurdles are going down more than ever Well, it seems that there will be no mistake that you will be able to feel the benefits casually and casually.

The significance of this recommendation seems to be that it is the most important thing that important decisions on the framework of HTML technology that can support the world have been made.

In addition, at this timing, the official Vimeo account of W3C has released a new animation movie, which was like a glimpse of the future web.

Web standards for the future on Vimeo


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It may be useful for Karuta to study tags included in HTML 5.

The explanatory note of HTML 5 is a reader's card, the tag is the cartel "HTML5 KARUTA" of a picture card