The sixth revision of HTML will have namespaces similar to XML structure. What is so good about XML namespaces? They will help you use the same tag without conflicting it with any other tag. For instance the one used in the XHTML DOCTYPE:

  xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

HTML6 will allow us use the tags we want instead of the defined tags only.

HTML6 example

  

    
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Heading of main article
                
Sub-heading of main article
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The concept of HTML6
                
Understanding the basics
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Have you noticed some odd tags? These are the namespaced elements that belong to the W3C and HTML6 spec, and will trigger browser events. Here is a simple example for better understanding: the element will change the title bar of your browser and the element will help make the defined image appear on your browser screen. All these elements are specifically defined for users and don’t have anything to do with the browser. They’re just hooks for JavaScript and style sheet and help to make your sample code more semantic.

HTML6 APIs

HTML6 tags will have the namespace html like or etc. Now we’ll have a look at each tag attributes used in the above HTML6 example document.

// this is equivalent to  tag written in previous HTML versions
  

This tag is a tag’s equivalent. It is targeted on obtaining data and scripts that tweak how the content within the tag is displayed.

  
    <!-- Main content would come here, like the  tag -->
  

As you can guess from the name, it will change the title of the HTML document. It is similar to the

  
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This tag differs from the tag used in the HTML5 version. This HTML6 tag can be used to sort the meta data. But unlike HTML5 you won’t have to use the standard meta types in HTML6. It helps to pile up the information (like webpage description) by storing content.

  
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This tag is for external linking of documents and scripts (like CSS, JS etc.) to the HTML document. It’s similar to tag in HTML5. This tag includes the following attributes:

• charset: "UTF-8" character encoding;
• href: contains link to your source file;
• media: defines the kind of device on which your item will run (Smartphone, tablet, desktop, etc.);
• type: the MIME type of the document.

  
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This is just like the tag you’re using in the current HTML version. This is where all your website’s stuff (text, media and others) is placed.

 


  
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This tag is similar to the tag, which is used to represent a link to other web page. The difference is that unlike the tag, takes only a single ‘href’ attribute. It directs the link to the page you need to visit.

  
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    Go to siteurl.com!
  

This tag is equivalent to tag or used either in current or older HTML versions. It enables you to create a button for the user who wants to perform some interaction on your web page. It has one attribute disabled.

  
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This tag wraps up all the tags (,

  
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Tag types overview

Similar to the current and previous HTML versions, HTML6 will have two types of tags: single and double ones. Single tags won’t have any text content, only attributes. For example:

Compared to the double tag, you don’t need to close your single tag. Double tags have opening and closing tag because they’ve got some text content. But, in the case double tags don’t have any text-based content; you can reduce it to the ‘self-closing single variant’. For example:

Text based content

Summing up

You are right, HTML6 isn’t available yet. But Oscar Godson has provided an idea of what it will be offering at the nearest future. This post is just a teaser that will make you wait impatiently for the HTML6 advent.

Our team is grateful to Mike Swan for the shared information.