What has been deprecated, and what is new on HTML5?

• HTML is not the subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) anymore. Now, HTML5 added more functions about picture, location, and multitask,

  • canvas
  • video, audio
  • localStorage - used for storing data offline, last for a long time, and will not lose data after closing the browser
  • sessionStorage - same to localStorage, but lose data after closing the browser
  • More semantics labels, such as article, footer, header, nav, section
  • Form components, calendar, date, time, email, URL, search

• Deprecated labels

  • basefont, big, center, font, s, strike, tt, u, frame