Among the new semantic elements for section, footer, header and the like, HTML5 also adds an element that can contain any other element and describes it as Not Safe For Work (commonly abbreviated to “nsfw”).

Microformats are a way of adding extra semantic information to a webpage using HTML classes — information like an event’s date and time, a person’s phone number, an organisation’s email address, etc. They aren’t a “standard” per se, but they are a widely adopted convention within the geek community. And since they use an agreed-upon [...]

The details and figure elements are saved from the crazed pecadillos of legend, dd/ dt and caption by these two freshly-minted elements, sent from Hickson over the weekend.

We doctors are a bunch of chums using HTML5 and writing about how we do it. And we realise that we’ve been using the section element incorrectly all this time. Sorry.

As HTML 5 begins the last lap to the fabled W3C stage of Last Call, the editor Ian Hickson has requested that any problems with the spec be reported using the Bugzilla tool rather than simply the mailing list. You need to register to use it, and then reply to a confirmation email. That’s it. [...]

One new and exciting thing you can do in HTML 5 is wrap links round “block-level” elements. Find out how this works, why it works with true-life sample code.

I like the xhtml syntax. It’s how I learned. I’m used to lowercase code, quoted attributes and trailing slashes on elements like br and img. They make me feel nice and comfy, like a cup of Ovaltine and The Evil Dead on the telly. But you might not. You might want SHOUTY UPPERCASE tags, no [...]

Much of HTML 5′s feature set involves JavaScript APIs that make it easier to develop interactive web pages but there are a slew of new elements that allow you extra semantics in your conventional Web 1.0 pages. In order to investigate these, let’s look at marking up a blog. Firstly what we’ll do is use [...]