Differences between HTML and HTML5

HTML and HTML 5 are two basic languages for all Web development. Thus, every page that is consulted on the Internet will surely have HTML or HTML 5 tags, since both HTML and HTML5 were defined by the World Wide Web Consortium. These languages have different functionalities that have to do mainly with markup tags that have specific functions and uses.

That said, in this article we are going to define the HTML language and HTML 5 to later describe the most important differences between each of them.

📌What is HTML?

Fundamentally, HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language (hypertext markup language) and it is a language used for the elaboration of web pages officially launched in 1993. Thus, the HTML language is considered the most important web language , his invention being crucial in the appearance, development and expansion of the World Wide Web (WWW).

On the other hand, this is the standard that has been used the most in the display of web pages and is currently the one that all browsers have adopted. Among some characteristics of the HTML language we can mention the following:

It is written in the form of tags surrounded by angle brackets (‹›) and can describe to some extent the appearance of a document.
Each attribute and content has certain restrictions for the HTML document to be considered valid and all its variants open the instructions with ‹› and close with ‹›, for example ‹p›text‹/p›.
The file extension in HTML language is .html or .htm.
The HTML language is basically designed to display data and is focused on how that data is viewed.

📌What is HTML5?

Briefly, HTML 5 stands for HyperText Markup Language version 5, being the fifth revision of the basic language of the World Wide Web, HTML. It was published in 2014 and presents, among its particularities, two syntax variants, a classic one (text/html) known as HTML5 and an XHTML variant known as XHTML5 syntax that must be served with XML syntax (application/xhtml+xml).

Thus, HTML 5 allows the incorporation of RDF / OWL files (with meta information) to the pages to describe relationships between the terms used and offers versatility in the handling and animation of simple objects, images, among others. Among some features of the HTML 5 language we can mention the following:

Adds new tags to handle the Semantic Web (Web 3.0).
It introduces a number of new elements and some attributes that reflect the typical usage of most modern websites.
It introduces new ways of writing code, so the syntax varies a lot.
The file extension in HTML 5 language can be .html, .htm. .xhtml, .xht or .xml.

According to the specifications presented, the differences between HTML and HTML 5 are: