Still cutting your teeth on HTML4 and CSS2? Seems like yesterday that HTML4 superceded HTML3, but like everything, change is inevitable, and HTML5 will soon be with us. When, I'm not sure, but "soon" is a time related variable! The outcome of the introduction of HTML5 will be simpler mark-up, and no need for pesky niceties such as - <style type="text/css"> or <script type="text/javascript"> Those two examples will become just <style> and <script>. However, many attributes that we attach to mark-up, e.g. <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1"> will no longer be valid when checking a HTML5 document. CSS must be used to achieve similar results. A list of the deprecated attributes can be found at:- http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bristowe/test/html5-attr.html Note that the W3C Validator will check documents using <!DOCTYPE html> against the currently developed HTML5 standard. Barry
Tough on the older generation of fh-ers ... no teeth, using gums .... What advantages for the amateur webpage author are there, if any, in trying to use HTML5? Caroline Poems written to celebrate Liverpool's 800th anniversary http://www.poem800.com/index.php "Tilberia" http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~cmtilbury "TheTilbury Magazine" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmtilbury/ttm/ttm_frontpage.html AlanT's London families, including his globetrotters, & Edward-the-warehouse T http://www.arext.plus.com/ "The Bingham Line" (with HMS Tilbury in WW1) http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~bingham Every path has its puddle. -----Original Message----- From: Barry Carlson <barrycarls@gmail.com> To: FREEPAGES-HELP@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:59 Subject: [FreeHelp] HTML5 - List of attributes that wont be valid Still cutting your teeth on HTML4 and CSS2? Seems like yesterday that HTML4 superceded HTML3, but like everything, change is inevitable, and HTML5 will soon be with us. When, I'm not sure, but "soon" is a time related variable! The outcome of the introduction of HTML5 will be simpler mark-up, and no need for pesky niceties such as - <style type="text/css"> or <script type="text/javascript"> Those two examples will become just <style> and <script>. However, many attributes that we attach to mark-up, e.g. <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1"> will no longer be valid when checking a HTML5 document. CSS must be used to achieve similar results. A list of the deprecated attributes can be found at:- http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bristowe/test/html5-attr.html Note that the W3C Validator will check documents using <!DOCTYPE html> against the currently developed HTML5 standard. Barry