HTML5

Document Type Declarations in HTML5

July 30, 2011

Document type declaration is needed at the top of each web page in HTML5. Without specifying a ‘doctype’, your HTML just isn’t valid HTML and most browsers viewing them will switch to ‘quirks mode’, which means that they won’t understand the document and hence perform any random operation. The document declaration for HTML5 looks like this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC [...]

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HTML5: Latest Features – Part 2

May 22, 2011

In a previous article, we discussed some of the important and innovative features of HTML5 that were absent in the previous versions of HTML. In this article, we would discuss some more of those features. The Output element: the output element is used to display some sort of calculation. For example, if you’d like to display [...]

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HTML5: Latest Features

May 17, 2011

There are some very user-friendly and efficient features that have been added to HTML5 and which have made HTML5 far more powerful and efficient as compared to the previous versions. Some of the differences are presented: Consider a code in HTML4: <img src=”path/to/image” alt=”About image” /> <p>Image of Mars. </p> In the above code, there unfortunately isn’t any easy or semantic way [...]

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HTML5: Important Tags

May 12, 2011

In this article, some of the crucial tags that are used in HTML5 but were absent in the previous versions are discussed. The <address> tag defines the contact information for the author or owner of a document. If the <address> element is inside an <article> element, it represents the contact information of the author/owner of [...]

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Graphics with Canvas element in HTML5

April 27, 2011

The canvas element is used to draw graphics on a web page. The HTML5 canvas element uses JavaScript to draw graphics on a web page; hence the programmer should possess some knowledge of JAVA script as well. The canvas element has several methods for drawing paths, boxes, circles, characters, and adding images. To add a [...]

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HTML5: Web Data Storage Methods

April 13, 2011

Having discussed the basic differences between HTML5 and the previous versions of HTML, our main focus in this article would be discussing the data storage methods employed in HTML5. HTML5 maintains two basic methods for data storage: Permanent storage of data known as ‘localStorage’ and temporary storage of data for specific sessions known as ‘sessionStorage’. [...]

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HTML5: Power and Ease of Web Programming

April 12, 2011

HTML5 is the latest version of the most widely used scripting language for web development and design. It was created in 90s and continues to evolve to the day. HTML5 is basically a crossed-version of HTML or XHTML, hence establishing a single mark-up language to serve the purpose. With the evolution of the language, several [...]

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