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HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World
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HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World

by Estelle Weyl, Louis Lazaris, Alexis Goldstein
May 2011
Beginner
400 pages
10h 48m
English
SitePoint
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Foreword

Heard of Sjoerd Visscher? I’d venture to guess you haven’t, but what he considered a minor discovery is at the foundation of our ability to use HTML5 today.

Back in 2002, in The Hague, Netherlands, Mr. Visscher was attempting to improve the performance of his XSL output. He switched from createElement calls to setting the innerHTML property, and then realized that all the unknown, non-HTML elements were no longer able to be styled by CSS.

Fast forward to 2008, and HTML5 is gaining momentum. New elements have been specified, but in practice Internet Explorer versions 6-8 pose a problem, as they fail to recognize unknown elements; the new elements are unable to hold children and CSS has no effect on them. This depressing fact was posing ...

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