On Friday, October 29, 2010 6:17 AM (UTC+13) Caroline wrote:_ > Yes - but what advantages does HTML5 bring over and above existing > language? - Caroline ------------------- Caroline The purpose behind HTML5 is to simplify the mark-up and introduce new tags to help with that, e.g. header and footer, to name just two. They are self-explanatory. Over-all, though the semantics surrounding the use of many of the new elements (tags) is often on the heavy side, the intent is to make the page layout more user friendly. Some older elements such as <b> and <i> have been superceded by <strong> and <em>, but the are still available to be used. In fact with styling you can do anything with them, e.g. use them as pseudo <span> tags, or even block level elements etc.. I'll update the list from time to time with snippets from the HTML5 Working Group published data, but in the meantime everyone should be aware that the styling will no longer be achieved using tags, and CSS must be used to achieve the appearance required. Barry

Barry, from your page http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bristowe/test/html5-attr.html I read: "As browsers are designed to be backwardly compatible, they will continue to handle deprecated mark-up. Documents that use attributes that are not valid in HTML5 will still render correctly, and will validate provided they use a DOCTYPE that supports HTML4 or earlier languages." Therefore do I understand correctly that "everyone should be aware that the styling will no longer be achieved using tags, and CSS must be used to achieve the appearance required" applies only to the use of HTML5? Thank you for all your info. Caroline -----Original Message----- From: Barry Carlson <barrycarls@gmail.com> To: FREEPAGES-HELP@rootsweb.com; tilburycm@aim.com CC: barrycarlson@xtra.co.nz Sent: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:01 Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] HTML5 - List of attributes that wont be valid On Friday, October 29, 2010 6:17 AM (UTC+13) Caroline wrote:_ > Yes - but what advantages does HTML5 bring over and above existing > language? - Caroline ------------------- Caroline The purpose behind HTML5 is to simplify the mark-up and introduce new tags to help with that, e.g. header and footer, to name just two. They are self-explanatory. Over-all, though the semantics surrounding the use of many of the new elements (tags) is often on the heavy side, the intent is to make the page layout more user friendly. Some older elements such as <b> and <i> have been superceded by <strong> and <em>, but the are still available to be used. In fact with styling you can do anything with them, e.g. use them as pseudo <span> tags, or even block level elements etc.. I'll update the list from time to time with snippets from the HTML5 Working Group published data, but in the meantime everyone should be aware that the styling will no longer be achieved using tags, and CSS must be used to achieve the appearance required. Barry