HTML5 New elements

HTML 5 (HyperText Markup Language Version 5) is the next major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. HTML 5 specifies two variants of the same language, a “classic” HTML (text/html) variant known as HTML5 and an XHTML variant known asXHTML5.

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

• New parsing rules oriented towards flexible parsing and compatibility
• New elements – section, article, footer, audio, video, progress, nav, meter, time, 
  aside, canvas, datagrid
• New types of form controls – dates and times, email, url, search
• New attributes – ping (on a and area), charset (on meta), async (on script)
• Global attributes (that can be applied for every element) – id, tabindex, hidden
• Deprecated elements dropped – center, font, strike, frames