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title: "Tell me What purpose does HTML5 serve?"  
description: "Tell me What purpose does HTML5 serve?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2012-09-06  
updated: 2020-09-18  
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category: "html5"  
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# Tell me What purpose does HTML5 serve?

HTML5 is the proposed next standard for HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and DOM Level 2 HTML. It aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, Apache Pivot, and Sun JavaFX.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

HTML5 is the proposed next standard for HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and DOM Level 2 HTML. It aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, Apache Pivot, and Sun JavaFX.


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