Introducing HTML5 with JavaScript
HTML5 is formally a version of HTML. It is a huge step up compared to its predecessor and enables us to make full applications in the web browser that are even accessible offline. When you read HTML5 in a job description, it often means more than just HTML. Usually, the combination of HTML5 with JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and others is included here as well.
Since HTML5 the structure of our page has improved. We have new elements such as <header>
, <nav>
, and <article>
. And we can play videos with the <video>
element, which means we no longer need Flash since HTML5. And as we already mentioned we can work with the <canvas>
element to create visuals on the page or to represent visuals such as animation, graphs, and others. Some things that had to be done with JavaScript in the past can now be done solely with HTML, such as adding video and audio to a webpage.
Changes to the DOM also improved the loading time of web...