This HTML5 presentation--delivered at the Society for Technical Communication (STC) in May and again in August 2011--provides a high level overview of HTML5 and discusses the impact that HTML5 will have on Technical Communication.
The user is king! There is XHTML5 but it’s very strict.HTML5 is not as strict as previous versions of HTML.Show example /markup/sample.htmlRemove <head>, <html>, and <body>Just leave:<!DOCTYPE html> <meta charset=“utf-8”> <title>HTML 5</title> <h1>Header</h1>That’s enough. This HTML5, which would fit in a tweet, would render. You can even leave off the closing </h1> tag.For practical purposes, pick a style you like and stick with it. (Kind of like writing a document!)HTML5 strives to separate content from presentation where possible (use CSS)Most of the presentational features from earlier versions of HTML are no longer supportedThis was already in the works (HTML4 Transitional, XHTML1.1)
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