OVERVIEW

HTML5 is the main focus of the WHATWG community and also that of the W3C HTML Working Group. HTML5 is a new version of HTML4, XHTML1, and DOM Level 2 HTML addressing many of the issues of those specifications while at the same time enhancing (X)HTML to more adequately address Web applications. Besides defining a markup language that can be written in both HTML (HTML5) and XML (XHTML5) it also defines many APIs that form the basis of the Web architecture. Some of these APIs were known as 'DOM Level 0' and were never documented before. Yet they are extremely important for browser vendors to support existing Web content and for authors to be able to build Web applications.^[1]

CANVAS element ... portion of the Internet is still developing sites with a fixed and/or static approach to presentation. With the success of several social networking sites, performance and design scalability are no longer resigned to enterprise level class applications. Social networks and blogs demand a dynamic publishing solution for interactive content. Web development now requires sites to address publicly approved, fixed content and a need for interactive content creation. Whether one decides to purchase a complete packaged solution or have one designed around their needs and scale to meet future needs depends on the client.