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Since the HTML5 specification is not yet final, we can expect changes to improve on the good bits and cut out the bad bits. aside — a misunderstood good bit — has now been tweaked based on feedback from the web development community. In this article, we’ll take a look at what’s changed.
Other than allowing Mark’s everywhere to rejoice that they have an element that shares their name, HTML 5 introduces mark as a way to highlight text to indicate its relevance to the user. Read on as we tally up the uses of this new element.
Less action, more conversation. That’s how that Elvis song went, right? OK, perhaps not. Regardless, the new dialog element introduced in HTML 5 is all about marking up the conversation, and it uses a couple of elements you may have already heard of. Sure, it’s a little less action than something like audio, but it is still a useful element to semantically mark up many forms of dialogue.
HTML 5 offers a new element to mark additional information that can enhance an article but isn’t necessarily key to understanding it. However, in the interpretation of <aside> there lies confusion as to how it can be used, and with that there is demand for the Doctor to step up and clear the air. In [...]