HTML vs HTML5 (Differences & things to know about)

What is HTML?

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. Browsers don’t display the HTML tags but used to render the content of the page. Hypertext is a special method by which we can move around on the web by clicking on hyperlinks that open the next page. Markup is HTML tags such as opening and closing tags with text inside them by which we can format the text, put hyperlinks, images, etc. HTML acts as basic building blocks for World Wide Web.

What is HTML5?

HTML5 was released in the year 2014. HTML is updating itself with more features to make the internet more accessible for everyone. HTML5 is different from HTML, as all its features are supported across all browsers.
HTML5 is recommended by W3C from 2012 onwards. It includes processing models, detailed parsing rules, error handling, canvas for drawing, and support for local storage. HTML5 starts supporting JavaScript API such as Geolocation API for identifying location, cross-platform mobile application support. HTML5 defines a single Markup language that can be written in either HTML or XHTML language syntax and supports backward compatibility to previous HTML versions.

Let's have a look at some of the differences between HTML & HTML5:

HTML	HTML5
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup   Language and it is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.	HTML5 is the 5th version of HTML and is a core technology markup language of internet that is used for structuring and presenting the content for www.
No audio and video tags available in HTML	HTML5 is the introduced with audio and video tags
In case of HTML, we can use the browser cache as the temporary storage.	In case of HTML5, application cache, web SQL database and web storage is used.
Before the update of HTML5, Vector graphics was used in HTML with the help of various technologies such as VML, Flash, Silverlight etc	HTML5 has <canvas> tag which has hugely impacted the use of Adobe Flash in websites. The <canvas> element can be used to draw graphics with various shapes and colors via scripting, usually JavaScript.
Unable to support JavaScript to run in the background.	Javascript can run in the background.
The feature to get the geolocation details not available to the users.	Modern API on HTML geolocation provides accurate location details of the users.

Conclusion:
So, here we conclude that HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a markup language used to build static web pages and web applications. on the other hand, HTML5 is the fifth and the latest iteration of HTML, allowing you to build powerful and interactive websites and applications with ease.

Happy Learning !