New Features of HTML5

HTML has been around for a long time, but HTML5 has brought a range of new features onboard. If you are not familiar with coding HTML at all, these might not mean a whole lot to you. After all, just about everything is going to seem new and exciting. However, for people who have already been creating websites with HTML for some time — the benefits and features of HTML5 are a real game-changer.

Here are the new features that have been added with HTML5:

● Improved Forms: The way that webforms work, with different methods for using “< input >” attributes, have been added.

● Added semantics: Semantics are used to create your code. There are new ones added, including “< section >”, “< footer >”, and “< header >”.

● Canvas: This feature involves a Javascript-enabled drawing area, that can operate in two dimensions.

● Geolocation: This lets visitors to your webpages share their location in the world.

● Websocket: This is a new type of bidrectional technology for communicating in web apps.

● Local storage persistence: This can now be done without using plugins from third-parties.

● Server-Sent Events (SSE): A new type of event has been brought in with HTML5, allowing flow from browsers to servers.

● Audio/ Video: Audio and Video can now be embedded in webpages using HTML5, without needing to use plugins from third-parties.

● Drag and drop: This feature lets items on a webpage be moved around easily, with a drag and drop method.

● Microdata: This brilliant feature allows new semantics to be created, making extra vocabularies that are not included with HTML5.