What are the key differences between HTML4 and HTML5 draft?
Please keep the answers related to changed syntax and added/removed html elements.
You might be interested in this list of HTML5 elements and attributes.
Also, please note that it's "HTML 4", not "HTML4". Indeed, for HTML 5, both variants are used, but there is an important difference in meaning. HTML 5 refers to the name of the W3C specification, whereas "HTML5" is the document type of those HTML files with a text/html
MIME type that follow this spec.
The same goes for XHTML 5 vs. XHTML5.
From Wikipedia:
You'll want to check HTML5 Differences from HTML4: W3C Working Group Note 9 December 2014 for the complete differences. There are many new elements and element attributes. Some elements were removed and others have different semantic value than before.
There are also APIs defined, such as the use of canvas, to help build the next generation of web apps and make sure implementations are standardized.
Now W3c provides an official difference on their site:
HTML 5 invites you give add a lot of semantic value to your code. What's more, there are natives solution to embed multimedia content.
The rest is important, but it's more technical sugar that will save you from doing the same stuff with a client programming language.
HTML5 introduces a number of APIs that help in creating Web applications. These can be used together with the new elements introduced for applications:
contenteditable
attribute.draggable
attribute.In short it is much simple compared to html, the long doctype is removed and also center and font tag is removed. I also answered this difference in my blog : http://ravisinghblog.in/key-difference-between-html-and-html-5/
Source: Stackoverflow.com