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HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers
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HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers

by Klaus Förster, Bernd Öggl
June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 14m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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2. Structure and Semantics for Documents

Both the previously mentioned MAMA survey conducted by Opera and Google’s study of Web Authoring Statistics of 2005 (http://code.google.com/webstats) conclude that it was common practice at that time to determine the page structure of web sites with the class or id attribute. Frequently used attribute values were footer, content, menu, title, header, top, main, and nav, and it therefore made sense to factor the current practice into the new HTML5 specification and to create new elements for structuring pages.

The result is a compact set of new structural elements—for example, header, hgroup, article, section, aside, footer, and nav—that facilitate a clear page structure without detours via class or id ...

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