Lesson 10. The New HTML5 Elements
HTML5 includes some new elements, and they’re the focus of this lesson. We’ve already covered some of these new elements in previous lessons, but there are many more, most having to do with document structure.
Adding SVG and MathML
Here’s something that might surprise you—HTML5 has taken two XML languages, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and MathML (a language for displaying equations), and now supports them.
SVG is already supported by some browsers, such as Firefox, as you can see in Figure 10.1.
Figure 10.1. An SVG example.
Only one browser supports MathML and HTML at this time—that’s the Amaya test browser ...
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