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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. Re:Can't we do all this stuff already? by trolltalk.com · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Which, assuming you want to support IE users, means no."

    You can support IE users ... just inlcude links to the download pages for Opera, Firefox, Netscape, Safari, etc.

    Better yet, give them full support - have them download a bootable linux distro to replace Vista Millennium.

    --
    Kevin Smith on Prince
  2. Re:Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    And how is <div class="article"> not machine parsable? OK, so what does "article" actually mean here?

    How about <div class="artigo">? What does that mean?

    Or <div class="Artikel"> or <div class="articolo">? Is that the same thing? If so, how does the machine know that? If not, why not? It's the same damn word, just different languages.