HTML5 is a new standard of the HyperText Markup Language which is being available with many changes and improvements. It has brought around many new features which were not locally available under the previous HTML 4 version and has thereby extended the possibility to be more creative as well as productive in creating websites for presenting resources on the web. The previous fourth version of this markup language which prevailed for many years till now was lacking many good and useful features which was required to be substituted by using additional third-party support. The new HTML5 would thereby make these features to be less dependant on other technologies and henceforth provide a better solution for achieving such desired output within its own boundary. Therefore without stretching this any further, let us now have a look at what's new in HTML5 or to be more precise, what new features are available under HTML5.



HTML5, which is still under the draft stage is supposed to bring-in a lot of new features which might include new attributes and elements, extension of support for Dynamic contents, Inline elements, Structural change and many other improved component while also dropping out some of the unapproved or rather useless elements which was present in the HTML4. So, let us have a look at some of the key changes and improvements that are likely to be introduced in the HTML5.



The Local Storage feature to be available in the this new revision of HyperText Markup Language is one of the key improvements which will allow persistent data to be locally stored in the client machine within the web browser. It works the same way as cookies does, but is improved in a better way to offer more storage space for caching those informations under two storage areas which is defined for local storage and temporary session storage. Most of the new and advanced web browsers like IE 8, Opera 10.5, Chrome, Mozilla etc. will have support for this local web storage method.


The Web Workers API in HTML5 is another useful Hyper-Threading feature for web browsers which can facilitate multiple processing of threads in the background without causing any performance issue as such. Some of the new browsers are already having this feature to some extent and is proposed to be made available globally for all other web browsers.


The new canvas element in HTML5 will allow to render dynamic and graphical contents by defining specific regions to draw and generate dynamic graphics using JavaScripts. It will be like a drawing board for trying out the hand driven sketches without necessarily requiring any external plugins and support.


The video and the audio elements which is introduced within this new markup language will be used for uploading and embedding multimedia contents on the webpage without depending on other technologies and media codecs. It will be possible to upload video and audio contents for playback within the webpage with ease.


The markup language adds new inline elements to what is already available in the previous versions. Some of these notable inline elements available for use are meter, mark, progress and time. In addition to these, there are many new attributes being introduced such as that of spell check, context menu and many other such attributes.



This new newly revised HTML5 markup language also comes with many other features and components apart from what is listed above such as Geo Location, Place holder text, Offline Web application, attributes like charset (on meta) and async (on script) and various other improved changes. It thus carry more potential then what was so-far available within the previous versions. Since, the HTML5 is still under the draft stage we can expect many more new features and technical aspects to be added to its feature list and thereby make it a powerful markup language to deal with web projects in an efficient and more user-friendly manner.

So, are you ready for this new HTML5 which is available with a lot of new features and productive possibilities? Do let us know your views and opinions regarding this new revision of the HTML standard.