W3C Release Seven Important Document On HTML5

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The popular World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) gave a chance for the developers to learn more about the cutting edge new standards of HTML 5 and CSS 3. While the company has been working on drafts for a quite some time, but they were just few of the standards. But recently, the W3C released seven important documents, while six of them concerning the HTML specification, which are quite interesting to read about HTML 5 and last one contains proposals for features to be added to HTML to support bidirectional text in various languages such as Arabic, Thaana, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, etc.

The list of documents includes the following files:

HTML: The Markup Language

This document describes the HTML markup language and provides details necessary for producers of HTML content to create documents that conform to the language. By design, it does not define related APIs, nor attempt to specify how consumers of HTML content are meant to process documents, nor attempt to be a tutorial or “how to” authoring guide.

HTML5

This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability.

HTML5 differences from HTML4

HTML5 defines the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. “HTML5 differences from HTML4″ describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes. This document may not provide accurate information as the HTML5 specification is still actively in development. When in doubt, always check the HTML5 specification itself.

HTML Canvas 2D Context

This specification defines the 2D Context for the HTML canvas element.

HTML Microdata

This specification defines the HTML microdata mechanism. This mechanism allows machine-readable data to be embedded in HTML documents in an easy-to-write manner, with an unambiguous parsing model. It is compatible with numerous other data formats including RDF and JSON.

HTML+RDFa

This specification defines rules and guidelines for adapting the RDF in XHTML: Syntax and Processing (RDFa) specification for use in the HTML5 and XHTML5 members of the HTML family. The rules defined in this specification not only apply to HTML5 documents in non-XML and XML mode, but also to HTML4 and XHTML documents interpreted through the HTML5 parsing rules.

Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML

Authoring a web app that needs to support both right-to-left and left-to-right interfaces, or to take as input and display both left-to-right and right-to-left data, usually presents a number of challenges that make it an especially laborious and bug-prone task. Some of these are due to browser bugs, but some can be traced to a gap in the specification of the bidirectional aspects of a given HTML feature. And some of these challenges could be greatly simplified by adding a few strategically placed new HTML features. This document proposes fixes for some of the most repetitive pain points.

You may not find any ground breaking changes when compared to the previous drafts that were released, yet it comes with more documentation and examples that offers much deeper insights of HTML5 than earlier!

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