After reading Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today by Bruce Lawson, I’m somewhat surprisingly confident that I’ll be able to pick up HTML5 and get into using it. Like Gina has stated in her blog, who would have thought that just adding the number 5 to HTML means a whole new markup language for web designers to use.
One element that I do like is that the div is not necessary for the following main part of the website: header, footer, navigation, section and articles. It will make it much easier for me to separate and style which main sections I want in my HTML and CSS. It’s also nice to be able to add multiple tags like <header> to create/ focus on different parts in your html, as Lawson demonstrates here:
<body><h1> is a heading 1
<body> ... <section><h1> is a heading 2
<body> ... <section><section><h1>is a heading 3, and so on.
Again, as I have stated many times,. I am new to this and don’t understand everything. The figure( wrapping picture and caption) and legend (caption) elements seem foreign and strange to me. But hopefully when we start using it in class, “getting my hands dirty” will help me understand HTML5 better. I’m confident that eventually, I’l be able to use this HTML5, maybe even better than regular HTML. Time will only tell.