Chapter 3: Structuring Content with HTML5

In This Chapter

check.png HTML5 — the big new thing

check.png The impact of HTML5 video and CSS3 effects

check.png Structuring pages with HTML5 elements

check.png Using HTML5 for search engine optimization (SEO)

check.png Understanding and managing HTML5 compatibility issues in outdated browsers

As we discuss in Chapters 1 and 2 of this minibook, HTML5 is the current version of HTML, the language that structures the basic content in most web pages. In those chapters our exploration of HTML is pretty much version-free. That is, the HTML5 techniques we cover in those chapters could, for the most part, have been written the same way if we were showing you how to structure web pages with earlier versions of HTML. The HTML5 we cover in Chapters 1 and 2 of this minibook works in every browser, even outdated browsers (such as Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, and 8).

But HTML5 has also added new (and quite valuable) elements. Those elements include more accessible forms (something we cover in Book ...

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