Consortium World Wide Web (W3C) has published a draft variant of the specification of the fifth version of language of hypertext marking HTML.

Language HTML 5 will come in the stead obsolete HTML 4 which specification has been let out in 1997. Fifth version HTML will give to developers much wider functionality and will simplify process of creation of interactive sites, and also a web-appendices. Besides in HTML 5 there will be additional elements for interaction with various forms and introductions in a web-page of a multimedia content.

Among the most appreciable and important innovations in HTML 5 consortium W3C allocates program interfaces for work with bidimentional графикой, means of introduction in a web-page of videoclips and audiomaterials, and also the tools, allowing to give an opportunity of editing of sites to visitors. Other changes in fifth version HTML are aimed at simplifications of representation in a code of usual elements a web-pages.

5 the special group generated in March of the last year was engaged in development of the draft version of specification HTML. This group includes the order five hundred participants, including experts of such companies, as Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, BEA Systems, Cisco, France Telecom and Hewlett-Packard. Consortium W3C emphasizes, that the published specification will be finished and specified. Therefore the web-developers and is offered to direct to programmers in W3C the comments and wishes.

To familiarize with a draft variant of specification HTML 5 it is possible on this page.