HTML5 in Drupal

With the growth of HTML5, modules are beginning to ramp up. They utilize HTML5 features like support for a geolocation field, video and audio media elements, and online drawing, through the canvas. It's not all about modules, but also themes are already available to provide up-to-date support with HTML5 standards such as responsive design through the use of media queries, structuring the HTML page itself, and much more.

We'll examine a Drupal module, which adds support for some of the HTML5 fields that we covered (it introduces other HTML5 capabilities, but we can focus on the fields for now). The module is called HTML5 Tools and we'll download and install Version 7.x-1.2 (http://drupal.org/project/html5_tools), but notice that ...

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