CHAPTER 2
The Truth About a Basic HTML5 Web Page
Let’s start with the first line of a web page. It’s now just this:
<!doctype html>
That’s it. It’s short, it’s memorable, and it triggers standards mode in all major browsers (including IE6). It’s also case insensitive. In HTML5 the opening <html> tag has also been simplified to <html lang="en">.
Browsers will cope without the lang attribute, but it’s good practice to specify the page’s primary language, especially for non-English pages. (See this helpful article on declaring languages in HTML5: http://nimbupani.com/declaring-languages-in-html-5.html.)
Next comes the <head> tag, which will contain ...
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