HTML5

HTML5 is the newest version of the HTML markup language used to make webpages. This is a bit of a stub page but I'm going to list and link to the "practical" differences between it and its somewhat older relative, XHTML, which is what this little site is based on. There's a good bit more but for earlier labs, this should be enough.

  1. The use of the meta element, which isn't new. See also HTML5 Skeleton.
  2. void elements in place of empty elements.
  3. An altered Doctype, see HTML 5 skeleton for more. (compare to the XHTML skeleton at Required Tags/Elements if you're curious.

      4. Since you might be working on your first webpage....

      How to make a webpage, the quick, quick version:

      1. Make sure you under stand the terms "element", "tag", and, less important at first, "attribute" from Here
      2. Open your editor (Scite) from class. It should be in the lab how to do this.
      3. Copy, by hand, the skeleton from the HTML5 Skeleton (you need to know when a skeleton is wrong)
      4. Stick elements where they need to be. Rule of thumb: If it's something that's "on" the page
        -- the large area in your browser, e.g. FireFox or Internet Explorer -- it most likely goes inside the body element, i.e. between the opening and closing body tags.
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