html5

hegma · 06-04-2010

Have you heard of the following tags and tag attributes?

* <!DOCTYPE html> instead of the plain old long line of DOCTYPE
* <html lang="en"> instead of the old <html xmlns="...">
* <meta charset="utf-8" /> instead of the plain old long content-type line
* <header> and <hgroup> to define headers of the BODY (where logos usually exist along with h1, h2, h3 ...h6)
* <nav> to define where the navigation menu exists
* <article> to define an article inside your document (like news or blogs)
* <section> to define a logically related section (like news and their related photo albums)
* <aside> to define content that usually goes in the sidebar of a document (i.e. not directly related to the content of the page itself)
* <time> to define a timestamp (e.g. <time datetime="2009-10-22T13:59:47-04:00" pubdate> October 22, 2009 1:59pm EDT</time>)
* <footer> to define the footer of the document (where copyright and other common page information exists)
* <mark> to define highlighted text

If you have heard of them before, then you probably know that these are from the new HTML5 specification.
The beautiful thing is that these tags are already supported by modern browsers.
They are very useful because they allow search engines and page readers (for people with accessibility) to properly identify various parts of the document.

The only negative issue for now is that they are not properly identified through CSS. So you cannot, for example, provide a style block in the CSS Style Sheet for the tag article. Yet, you can still put the article tag in a div tag and let it inherit the style from the div.

Firefox, chrome and safari already supports HTML5, Opera is about to support it in a couple of months. So if you wan't to start enjoying the benefits of HTML5, stop using IE.

btw: this is a bad news for those who work with Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) technologies such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight.

**Kingroudy** · 06-04-2010

Opera does support HTML5 tags. but i'm still sided with flash.

**Google** · 06-04-2010

HTML5 is cool. F*ck flash.

06-04-2010	#1
hegma Registered Member Last Online: 10-02-2012 Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 366 Thanks: 110 Thanked 227 Times in 126 Posts Groans: 12 Groaned at 14 Times in 8 Posts	html5 Have you heard of the following tags and tag attributes? * <!DOCTYPE html> instead of the plain old long line of DOCTYPE * <html lang="en"> instead of the old <html xmlns="..."> * <meta charset="utf-8" /> instead of the plain old long content-type line * <header> and <hgroup> to define headers of the BODY (where logos usually exist along with h1, h2, h3 ...h6) * <nav> to define where the navigation menu exists * <article> to define an article inside your document (like news or blogs) * <section> to define a logically related section (like news and their related photo albums) * <aside> to define content that usually goes in the sidebar of a document (i.e. not directly related to the content of the page itself) * <time> to define a timestamp (e.g. <time datetime="2009-10-22T13:59:47-04:00" pubdate> October 22, 2009 1:59pm EDT</time>) * <footer> to define the footer of the document (where copyright and other common page information exists) * <mark> to define highlighted text If you have heard of them before, then you probably know that these are from the new HTML5 specification. The beautiful thing is that these tags are already supported by modern browsers. They are very useful because they allow search engines and page readers (for people with accessibility) to properly identify various parts of the document. The only negative issue for now is that they are not properly identified through CSS. So you cannot, for example, provide a style block in the CSS Style Sheet for the tag article. Yet, you can still put the article tag in a div tag and let it inherit the style from the div. Firefox, chrome and safari already supports HTML5, Opera is about to support it in a couple of months. So if you wan't to start enjoying the benefits of HTML5, stop using IE. btw: this is a bad news for those who work with Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) technologies such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. __________________ Let's paint the world ORANGE Last edited by hegma; 06-04-2010 at 09:36 AM.

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Kingroudy Super Moderator Last Online: 02-16-2022 Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 5,580 Thanks: 1,888 Thanked 2,653 Times in 1,593 Posts Groans: 55 Groaned at 35 Times in 32 Posts	Opera does support HTML5 tags. but i'm still sided with flash. __________________ click on 'Groan' to switch to my left testicle.

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Google Last Online: 05-30-2013 Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,788 Thanks: 10,018 Thanked 1,100 Times in 651 Posts Groans: 1 Groaned at 6 Times in 6 Posts	*HTML5 is cool. Fck flash.** __________________

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