20 Essential Things to Know About the HTML5

The HTML5 specification is the much-discussed, much-anticipated follow-on to HTML4, which has grown a little long in the tooth for the kinds of Web applications developers are creating today and aspire to create in the future. HTML5 will enable a whole new class of Web applications that support multimedia content and offline capability without the need for proprietary plug-in technology.

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