--- title: "What is HTML5? Describe about the features and benefits, using HTML5 in web programming." description: "What is HTML5? Describe about the features and benefits, using HTML5 in web programming." author: "Gurmeet Kaur" published: 2018-11-17 updated: 2018-11-17 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51733/what-is-html5-describe-about-the-features-and-benefits-using-html5-in-web-programming category: "programming" tags: ["html5"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # What is HTML5? Describe about the features and benefits, using HTML5 in web programming. What is [HTML5](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1535/offline-add-edit-delete-data-in-html5-indexeddb)? [Describe the features](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/102436/describe-the-features-of-a-high-resolution-computer-monitor) and [benefits](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/44875/know-the-top-5-ghee-benefits-for-babies-and-what-brand-to-prefer), using html5 in [web](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34611/internet-and-web) programming. ## Answers ### Answer by Arti Mishra **“HTML5”** HTML5 is the **latest version of HTML4.** It is **more powerful & lightweight web application language** that is mainly used for designing responsive WebPages. HTML5 is developed by co-operation of two organization **W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)** & **WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group)** & started to develop from 2000 & after that, it is **commercially launched by Google in 2012.** **\** ![What is HTML5? Describe about the features and benefits, using HTML5 in web programming.](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/9b3a5b08-44ec-43a0-98c1-73be9dd74c06/images/011d7bda-1ea7-40a6-8f4d-72413693db45.jpeg) **\** \ HTML5 is a group of different languages like - **HTML4+ XML + XHTML1.0 + CSS+JavaScript. = HTML5** **\** **"Benefit of HTML5 "** - It is used for design **new look & feel webpage.** - HTML5 **reduce the burden from programmer to write JavaScript code.** - It is **more powerful for different events with different features & properties.** - HTML5 also **reduce the dependency of the third party tools** like flash-player, Google-gear, silver-light, Google-map etc. - With the help of HTML5, we can **create our own images, logo, animated images without using any software** like Photoshop, coral-draw etc. - HTML5 **provides improved HTML4 control** like email, number, color, date etc. - It also **solves the server side programming task** like cookie, session & JS task etc. - HTML5 **provides advanced audio & video tag** to play HD file. \ **"Features of HTML5 "** **\** ![What is HTML5? Describe about the features and benefits, using HTML5 in web programming.](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/9b3a5b08-44ec-43a0-98c1-73be9dd74c06/images/a9210fb4-de48-45b0-aa9a-af57b73e4c99.jpeg) **\** **\** **1. New Semantic Tag** In HTML5 some semantic tag are introduce that **provide advance structure for web design** like
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