HTML Language vs HTML5 Language
March 23, 2020
A programming language is a type of written code language that tells the computers what to process in order to generate the output. All the software and computer programs are executed with programming languages, every single thing is programmed by using a specific programming language. Usually, the programming language uses real words for some of the commands, so that the human can read and understand the programming code.
Let us see, a comparison of the basic web languages used all over the world. We will compare HTML & HTML5 languages by focusing on different parameters:
DEFINITION:
HTML- The acronym of HTML is “Hypertext Markup Language” which is the primary language for developing web pages of a website.
HTML 5- HTML 5 is the new version of HTML which has new functionalities with Markup language as the core technology to interact with Internet Technologies for structuring and presenting the content.
MULTIMEDIA SUPPORT:
HTML- HTML doesn't have support for video and audio in the language.
HTML5- HTML5 has the support for video and audio as they are integrated into it.
GEOGRAPHICAL SUPPORT:
HTML- HTML has the support of tracking User location who are visiting the site but the process is cumbersome and difficult to find the users location when logged from mobile devices
HTML5- HTML5 has using JavaScript Geolocation API Which can be used to identify the location of any user who is accessing the website.
STORAGE:
HTML- HTML uses browser cache memory as temporary storage.
HTML5- HTML has multiple storage options such as application cache, SQL database, and web storage. We can JavaScript in the background with the help of JS API callable in HTML for storing.
COMMUNICATION:
HTML- In HTML Communication between client and server was done through streaming and long polling as it doesn't have socket support.
HTML5- In HTML it has support for web sockets which allows full-duplex communication between client and server.
BROWSER COMPATIBILITY:
HTML- HTML is compatible with almost all browsers as it is existing from long term and browsers did enough modification to Support all features in HTML.
HTML5- In HTML5, we have many new Tags elements and remove/modified few tags, elements so only a few browsers are fully compatible with HTML5 as of now.
GRAPHICS SUPPORT:
HTML- In HTML, Vector Graphics support is possible with the help of other tools such as Silverlight, Adobe Flash, VML, etc.
HTML5- In HTML, Vector Graphics are supported by default as it has canvas and SVG Input inbuilt.