Posted January 23rd, 2008 by Stewart Foss
Some of the new structural elements (header, footer, nav, article, section) should help simplify CSS based web design and make it easier to move a stylesheet from one design to another without having to remap classes or ids. The new attributes on the input tag (date, date-time, range, email, etc.) will be nice so that we don’t have to rely on javascript to do things that are common enough that the browser could handle them (should save us a few bytes too).
See all of the changes in HTML 5.
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Stewart Foss is the founder and creator of eduStyle and co-author of The eduStyle Guide to Usable Higher-Ed Homepage Design. He has worked in higher-ed web design since 2001. He started at Athabasca University eventually working as the lead web designer. He then worked as the Manager of Web Services for Grant MacEwan College. He currently works for peanuts at eduStyle and keeps the lights on doing freelance web design and consulting.
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