HTML 5 Defined

HTML 5 is a version of the software solution stack, Hypertext Markup Language, the code that  defines the properties and behaviors of web page content. HTML 5 is the fifth and last version of HTML, which is a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation.

HTML 5 is made up of three types of code:

• HMTL: which provides the structure
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): which provides the presentation
• JavaScript: which allows the code to work

There are three organizations that are  in charge of the specification of HTML 5:

1. Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) –  creates and develops the specification
2. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) –  delivers the specification.
3. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) –  develops the WebSocket API.

The difference between HTML 5 and HTML is that the latest version supports the traditional HTML and XHTML-style syntax and other new features in its markup including: New APIs, XHTML and error handling.