[jsr-314-open] Fwd: [jsf2.next] Proposal to support new semantic HTML5 tags

[Martin Marinschek]

So the new tags don`t add any new attributes in comparison to a normal
span/div?

regards,

Martin


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Jim Driscoll <Jim.Driscoll at sun.com> wrote:

> HTML5 has a number of new semantically meaningful tags.
>
> See here for a painless introduction:
>
> http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/why-html5-is-here-today-and-not-2022-654828
>
> Block tags include:
>
> article
> aside
> footer
> header
> nav
> section
>
> Inline tags include:
>
> details
> figure
> mark
> time
>
> Then, there's the canvas, audio and video tags.
>
> We can actually support many of these tags with only a minor change in to
> the panelGroup tag.
>
> In addition to the currently allowed "inline" and "block", I would add the
> following:
>
> span
> div
> article
> aside
> footer
> header
> nav
> section
> figure
> mark
>
> details and time deserve their own tags, I think, as do canvas, video and
> audio, and are not part of this proposal.
>
> We may wish to consider deprecating inline and block.  We've never
> deprecated attribute values before, but hey, first time for everything.
>
> Note that for backward compatibility with particularly lame (IE) browsers,
> a shiv needs to be included in the page, as found here:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/
>
> Whether this would be included automatically, should, I think, be
> implementation specific.
>
> Please comment on this proposal, and I'll add it to the spec issue tracker
> after we have consensus.
>
> Jim
>
> P.S.  Molly's HTML 5 talk at Rich Web was a good one - can you tell?
>
>


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