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HTML5 Hacks

Preface

1. Hacking the Semantic Way

Hack 1. Simplify Your Doc with the Right <doctype>

Hack 2. Adopt Common Structures

Hack 3. Make Your New HTML5 Tags Render Properly in Older Browsers

Hack 4. Bring Back the <input> Tag

Hack 5. Easily Implement Form Validation Without JavaScript

Hack 6. Improve the Usability of Your Forms with New Controls

Hack 7. Know What’s Going On in Your App with New DOM Events

Hack 8. Add Rich Context to Your Markup with Custom Data

Hack 9. Track User Events with Custom Data

Hack 10. Make Your Page Consumable by Robots and Humans Alike with Microdata

2. Hacking with Style

3. Multimedia Hacking

4. Hacking Your Graphics with Canvas and SVG

5. User Interactions

6. Client-Side Data Storage Hacks

7. Geolocation Hacks

8. WebWorker API

9. Hacking HTML5 Connectivity

10. Pro HTML5 Application Hacks with Node.js

Index

About the Authors

Colophon

Hack 2. Adopt Common Structures

Many web documents have similar structures. Take advantage of markup that makes it easier to share styles and expectations.

Web designers and developers have long conformed to structural components on a page. A common high-level page structure may look something like the following:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
        <title>...</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="header">...</div>
        <div id="nav">...</div>
        <div id="article">...</div>
        <div id="footer">...</div>
    </body>

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