Difference in HTML and HTML5
 

What is difference between HTML and HTML5?

HTML is a markup language that is used to build static (non interactive and nonanimated) webpages.
HTML5 is the latest revision of HTML containing much better support for media like video and audio tags.
audio and video has internal specifications and has separate tags ie

HTML 5 is the fifth version of HTML and defines an HTML syntax that is compatible with HTML4 and XHTML1 documents shown on the Web. HTML5 also declared detailed parsing rules (including "error handling") for this syntax which are largely compatible with popular implementations. User agents must use these rules for resources that have the text/html media type.

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Applications HTML5

HTML is simply markup language and HTML5 is great programming language

HTML is a markup language that is used to build static (non interactive and non-animated) webpages.
HTML 5 is the latest revision of HTML containing much better support for media like video and audio tags.
audio and video has internal specifications and has separate tags ie

HTML5 is the latest version of HTML with some new useful tag like

HTML is a markup language
HTML5 is just a newer version of the HTML coding language. It is more advanced, with new features and changes to improve it.and HTML5 has the additional features of audio and video tags.

HTML5 is the newer specification for HTML.

As for which one is better, HTML5 is now fairly widely supported amongst browsers. It's got some pretty cool features like support for audio and video, 2d drawing using the canvas element, new semantic elements and much more.

There are many differences that are given in HTML5. The key difference between HTML and HTML5 is that video and audio are not part of HTML while these both are integral parts of HTML5 specifications.

The main difference are:
1. Audio and video were not part of previous HTML version specifications, however, both are the integral part of HTML5 specifications.
2. Vector graphics is also an integral part of HTML5 such as SVG and canvas while vector graphics is possible in HTML with the help of various technologies such as VML, Silverlight, Flash, etc.
3. In HTML, browser cache can be used as temporary storage. In case of HTML5, application cache, web SQL database, and web storage is used.
4. HTML doesn’t allows JavaScript to run in web browser, it runs in same thread as browser interface. HTML5 allows JavaScript to run in background that is possible because of JS Web worker API in HTML5.

HTML5 is the fifth version of HTML and is a core technology markup language of internet that is used for structuring and presenting the content for WWW. It is the latest, final and complete version of HTML standard of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the primary markup language for web pages. HTML5 is the version of HTML. The core aims of HTML5 have been to improve the language.