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HTML5 is a cooperation between the W3C and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). They are working with web forms and applications and W3C was working with XHTML 2.0.
Some rules for HTML5 were established:
* New features should be based on HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript
* Reduce the need for external plugins (like Flash)
* Better error handling
* More markup to replace scripting
* HTML5 should be device independent
* The development process should be visible to the public
Some most interesting new features in HTML5:
* The canvas element for drawing
* The video and audio elements for media playback
* Better support for local offline storage
* New content specific elements, like article, footer, header, nav, section
* New form controls, like calendar, date, time, email, url, search
Browser Support
HTML5 is not yet an official standard, and no browsers have full HTML5 support.
But all major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer) continue to add new HTML5 features to their latest versions.
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