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Asked: 2026-05-19T09:51:18+00:00

I keep hearing all about HTML5 and how great it is, but if I

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I keep hearing all about HTML5 and how great it is, but if I don’t really care about audio and video, is there anything it really changes for me? I’ve read up on the new tags it supports and they just don’t seem to be all that revolutionary beyond its video and audio capabilities.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Shamelessly copy-pasted from wikipedia:

    • The canvas element for immediate mode 2D drawing.
    • Timed media playback (possibly not interesting for you)
    • Offline storage database (offline web applications). See Web Storage[21]
    • Document editing (via DOM API and user interface)
    • Drag-and-drop
    • Cross-document messaging
    • Browser history management
    • MIME type and protocol handler registration.
    • Microdata
    • Browser-based SQL databases
    • Oh, and WebSockets to replace AJAX and Comet.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#New_APIs

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