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Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-so-patiently-waiting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Pure HTML enhancements hardly grew at all in the last eight years. Forward motion basically stopped in 1999 with HTML 4. Now the future looks bright. Recently, HTML has come back to life with HTML 5. Tons of new elements will be available for structure (article, nav, section, etc.), block semantic elements (aside, figure, dialog), and several other functions."

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  1. The most greatly wanted tag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    And, of course, the addition of the long overdue

    <dupe>http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?si d=07/07/20/1226235</dupe>
    tag.
  2. Re:Excellent! by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 5, Funny

    The whole point of a semantic tag is that it is machine parsable. A script that is interpreting the page will know what parts of the page is the article, which parts are the navigation, which parts are the advertisements, and so on.

    Actually, they need to put in an <ad> tag.

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  3. Announcing by Bluesman · · Score: 5, Funny

    The BRAND NEW HTML 5!

    Almost as good as TeX!

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