Let's talk about a HTML five.
What is it and why should we care about it?
Let's look at the overview.
The first point is that it is the fifth and then the current version of HTML, and it was first released
in October 2014.
By the time of recording this video.
85 is the current version.
Remember, under the overview of HTML, we spoke about brief history about it, and we made mention
that the first HTML that was introduced in 1990 was a HTML 1.0.
And you also have different version and that is a HTML four.
Buy.
The current one is the 85 by the time of recording this video.
This means that it is an improvement of the previous versions.
So let's look at the next point.
It improves the previous version and that is a HTML four by introducing new element attributes and API.
When we say API is simply means application programming interface.
When you get back to back end development, you better understand what is API.
The key note here is new elements and attributes and API being introduced in HTML five, and I will
show you some of the new elements and attributes.
And we have used some of these new elements in the previous sections and that is under the tables and
forms.
But I will show you more of this.
The next point is that it includes several APIs for building web applications such as Web sockets,
Web workers, and geolocation API.
So the web socket, the geolocation API and others are all new APIs that has been introduced in HTML
five.
Don't worry if this concept are not clear to you as you move on, I'll be showing you some of these
new elements and we'll be building a couple of projects to enhance our knowledge.
Let's continue into next video.