What the heck is…

Cheryl Lowry

University of WashingtonMCDM

COM585: Managing Your Web PresenceNovember 2, 2011

<Tim Berners-Lee>

XHTML 2.0

HTML5

Play videos and audio directly in the browser

<audio><video>

No need for plug-ins And embed code

Dynamic animations and games

<canvas>

No more app store?

html5test.com: does your browser support HTML5?

References• What is XHTML?http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/HTML_vs._XHTML• Tim Berners-Lee: “Reinventing HTML”

http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166 • A brief history of markup, by Jeremy Keith

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-markup/ • What is HTML5? http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/what-is-html5.html • Why HTML will kill (or seriously injure) mobile app stores

http://flipthemedia.com/index.php/2011/07/why-html-5-will-kill-or-seriously-injure-mobile-app-stores/

• Apple shows off Safari’s pioneering HTML5 support http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/03/apple-shows-off/

• How well does your browser support HTML5? http://html5test.com/ • Buy a shirt, support the open web platform: http://html5shirt.com/