Changes in HTML5

Yesterday W3C has published document named HTML5 differences from HTML4. Interesting here is that the standard provides two syntax variants HTML5 and XHTML5: HTML5 - is compatible with HTML4 and XHTML1 documents published on the web, but is not compatible with the more esoteric SGML features of HTML4. Documents using this syntax need to be served with the text/html MIME type. HTML5 also defines detailed parsing rules (including “error handling”) for this syntax which is largely compatible with popular implementations....

June 16, 2007 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich