HTML5

HTML5 is the most recent version of HTML (at the time of this writing). In is maintained by Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft, in a consortium known as the WHATWG. It notably added syntax tags such as  ,  ,  ,  ... ,  ... ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , and  ; These were features not present in HTML4. It also added support for SVG files.

HTML5 was created by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WhatWG) at a time in which W3C was attempting to push XHTML. HTML5 was meant to go in a different direction than XHTML.

It received W3C Recommendation status in October of 2014, and is widely implemented among browsers.

More information can be found at WhatWG HTML Spec - History

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