Comments on: HTML5 for publishers

By: Joe Clark

Joe Clark — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:07:11 +0000

I really don’t understand how document semantics are expected to “drive… sales” when (a) E-books at present are a complete disaster at such semantics, (b) any improvement means a book actually works, and (c) as with Web sites, users are not expected to care about underlying code; their devices are, people with certain disabilities excepted.

You don’t need “authoring tools” for Webfonts.

IE9 is not “the most ubiquitous browser,” as you imply. Your E-books will be only occasionally read in actual Web browsers. Everyone who wants to appreciate HTML5/CSS3 features won’t be using IE-anything.

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By: Gavin Carothers

Gavin Carothers — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:30:40 +0000

“will safely ignore unknown tags” this is not exactly true. If your using CSS to style your pages your going to be in for a bit of a surprise in IE if your using the new tags. Luckily it’s still very simple to use them.

document.createElement(‘article’);
document.createElement(’section’);
document.createElement(‘aside’);
document.createElement(‘footer’);
document.createElement(‘header’);
document.createElement(‘nav’);

will let IE style and correctly handle the new elements.