
Development work on HTML continued until the year 2004 till the group members became disturbed with the new direction the consortium was taking with regards to the technology. The group felt that W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium) was not paying attention to real world development of HTML and was focusing more on XHTML and XML.
A new team was thus formed which was known as WHATWG. It is the abbreviation for Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group. This team was devoted to help the web to evolve. A new specification known as HTML 5 took shape. It is the new version of HTML 4 and XHTML 1 combined. It focuses on needs of the developer of web applications. It also does a good job of addressing the issues seen in current specifications.
While the specification has not been finalized as of now it can be used in any browser that supports HTML 5 or parts of it. The example being the canvas element of HTML 5 as it is supported by many of the latest versions of browsers. This element helps in drawing graphics by the help of scripting. This element is currently supported by browsers such as FireFox, Safari, IE 8 and Opera.
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