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New elements in HTML 5 — Structure and semantics is an interesting article by Elliotte Rusty Harold on the new elements introduced in HTML 5 which include

• section, header, article and aside
• nav and footer
• video and audio

Running a blog yourself you might have noticed these new tags are exactly what you need to structure your content while making divs obsolete.

Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium.
[...]
This new version of HTML—usually called HTML 5, although it also goes under the name Web Applications 1.0—would be instantly recognizable to a Web designer frozen in ice in 1999 and thawed today.
[...]
That’s not a happy coincidence. HTML 5 was explicitly designed to degrade gracefully in browsers that don’t support it. The reason is simple: We are all cave people.

The great benefit of having dedicated tags for e.g. section, article and header is of course that it is machine parsable. A program understands

My Great Content

as your post’s content but couldn’t make much sense of

My not so great content

.

Read the full article by Elliotte Rusty Harold with examples on IBM’s developerWorks.

Read the HTML 5/Web Applications 1.0 Working Draft.

tags: article, Elliotte Rusty Harold, HTML 5, HTML tags, new tags, section, Web Applications 1.0

Posted on Thursday, August 9th, 2007 at 22:10 by Daniel M. Gattermann. This Post is filed under Computer, Internet. You can follow responses through the and view other blogs commenting on this post. You can also leave a response, or trackback from your own site.