HTML 5 Discussions: Next Version Of Hyper Text Markup Language

CEans,

Are you aware that the next version of the hyper text markup language [or simply, the language that lets you view all these beautiful web pages on the Internet] is around the corner.

Filename extension     HTML5: .html, .htm
XHTML5: .xhtml, .xht, .xml
Internet media type     HTML5: text/html
XHTML5: application/xhtml+xml, application/xml

HTML 5 is going to change the web-app development scene in the world.

Wikipedia says -

Differences from HTML 4/XHTML 1.x

The following is a cursory list of differences and some specific examples.

• New parsing rules oriented towards flexible parsing and compatibility
• New <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Html Element</a> – section, article, footer, audio, video, progress, nav, meter, time, aside, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_%28HTML_element%29" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Canvas %28Html Element%29</a>, datagrid
• New types of form controls – dates and times, email, url, search
• New <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML#Attributes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Html Attributes</a> – ping (on a and area), charset (on meta), async (on script), data-x (where x is a user supplied custom attribute name.)
• Global attributes (that can be applied for every element) – id, tabindex, hidden
• Deprecated elements dropped – center, font, strike
• Frames made invalid.
• Not based on SGML.

Share your thoughts on HTML 5 and how it's going to change the Internet (read: World 😀 )