Chapter 10. New HTML5 Semantics

HTML5 is finally upgrading the HTML4 tags with semantics commonly used across the web.

Markup Studies

In December 2005, Google published a study of Web Authoring Statistics that documented the class names used on the most pages:

Markup Studies

This bar chart shows which class names are used on the most pages.

In many ways, Google’s study was an expansion of earlier studies, such as John Allsopp’s “Semantics in the wild” study: http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/2005/11/real_world_sema.html.

This table displays which class names are ...

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