Sunday, August 12, 2007

HTML 5 (Web Applications 1.0)

HTML 5 is set to introduce several new elements including the following:
  • section - generic section as part of document structure
  • article - independent piece of content
  • aside - piece of content slightly related to the rest of the page
  • header - the header for a section
  • footer - the footer for a section
  • nav - a navigation (links) section
  • dialog - used to mark up conversations
  • figure - associate a caption with some embedded content
  • audio and video - for multimedia content
  • embed - for plugin content
  • m - an area of marked text
  • meter - a measurement e.g. disk usage
  • time - a date and/or time
  • canvas - for rendering dynamic bitmap graphics on the fly
  • command - a command the user can invoke
  • datagrid - a representation of a tree list or tabular data
  • details - additional information which the user can obtain on demand
  • datalist - used with the list attribute for comboboxes
  • event-source - used to "catch" server sent events
  • output - some type of output e.g. from a script
  • progress - represents a completion of a task
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/x-html5/index.html?ca=drs-
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/previewofhtml5
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/diff/

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