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html5 is easier and more logical than previous version many complicated syntaxes are now deprecated and new easier tags are included. Some unique features of HTML5 very useful to design multimedia website. Many of the features included with the consideration that users should be able to run heavy content on low-powered devices. The syntactic features include the new <video>, <audio> and <canvas> elements, but also integration of vector graphics content (what we knew before as being the <object> tags). This means multimedia and graphic content on the web will be handled and executed easier and faster, without the need of plug-ins or APIs. Fallowing new tags are added in html5 <article> – this tag defines an article, a user comment or a post, so an independent item of content <aside> – the aside tag marks content aside from the page content, which for example could be a lateral sidebar <header>, <footer> – you won’t need to manually name IDs for headers and footers, as now you have a pre-defined tag for them <nav> – the navigation can now be placed in the markup in between the nav tags, which will automatically make your lists act like navigation <section> – this is another important new syntax, as it can define any kind of sections in your document. <audio>, <video> – these two obviously mark sound or video content, which will now be easier to run by devices. <embed> – this new tag defines a container for interactive content (plugin) or external application <canvas> – the canvas tag is quite exciting, as it allows drawing graphics via scripting (mostly JavaScript, but some others can be employed as well)