The modern web

HTML5, CSS3 and the open web standard

W3C defines the standards.

There was HTML2, HTML4, HTML5. Will there be HTML6? Some prefer HTML to be a live standard and drop the version number.

HTML5 comes with quite a lot of new features.

1. New tags for semantic web
2. New input tags and attributes
3. Canvas for drawings
4. Offline cache
5. Video & Audio

New tags oftem comes with new JavaScript API.

1. Canvas API
2. Geolocation
3. Orientation
4. Accelerometer
5. Gyroscope
6. Local Storages
7. Camera

All the above are for information and related manipulation. CSS3, on the other hands, are in charged of the styling.

1. Media Queries
2. Color and gradients
3. GPU accelerated transition
4. Animation

Where to learn the open standards?

Where we can find information of open stardards?

1. W3Schools? No, please.
2. Mozilla Developer Network
3. W3.org documentation

What’s next? We’re going to take a look at “What is PhoneGap”.