HTML5 Doctor

While many HTML4 elements have been brought into HTML5 essentially unchanged, several historically presentational ones have been given semantic meanings.

Let’s look at <i> and <b> and compare them to the semantic stalwarts <em> and <strong>. In summary:

We’re back with our first roundup of your questions for 2010. In this article, we’ll be covering a range of topics including sections and sectioning, the <img> element, scaling video, and a proposal for a <field> element.

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The Web SQL database API isn’t actually part of the HTML5 specification, but it is part of the suite of specifications that allows us developers to build fully fledged web applications, so it’s about time we dig in and check it out.

Microformats are a way of adding extra semantic information to a webpage using HTML classes — information like an event’s date and time, a person’s phone number, an organisation’s email address, etc.

They aren’t a “standard” per se, but they are a widely adopted convention within the geek community. And since they use an agreed-upon set of class names, they are as compatible with HTML5 as they are with HTML4 or XHTML.

This weekend saw the minting of not one but two new elements. The summary element (not the summary attribute on the table element) goes inside the details element:

Unless you’ve been hiding under an XHTML2 shaped rock for the past week or so, you’ll know that both YouTube and Vimeo have announced plans to support the HTML5 video element. Two blog Read more