HTML 5 is a new version of HyperText Markup Language, the language or code us web designers use to create web pages. HTML 4 has been in existence for nearly a decade and given the pace at which things move in the web design world it’s long overdue an update.
You have no doubt heard of Twitter by now as it’s gained quite a lot of coverage in the press recently. Just to recap for those who are new to Twitter it’s a free service that enables its’ users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. The activity of posting short messages has been called “micro-blogging”. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, text message (SMS) or external applications.
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Google Chrome OS will be an open source, lightweight operating system targeted at netbooks initially. Google is planning on releasing the code later on this year and we should see netbooks running Google Chrome OS emerging in the latter part of next year.
The W3C have announced that they will be ceasing any further development of XHTML 2 at the end of this year in favour of putting more resources into the development of HTML 5, which has gained much more momentum in terms of web design community backing and encouraging browser support.