Web Design with HTML and CSS

Starting with an HTML5 foundation

Lesson 12, HTML5 Essentials 267

Starting with an HTML5 foundation

When deciding whether to use HTML5, you are faced with the issue of whether you should

use features that customers and users will want to use in the future, but may not work with

many older browsers.

There are solutions currently available that bridge the gap in browser support. The best

way to understand this is to consider the core HTML5 syntax you learned in the fi rst half

of this lesson. If you build a web page that uses the new tags, such as <header>, <nav>, or

<article>, it displays well on many current web browsers, including Internet Explorer 9.

Older versions of Internet Explorer are not able to display most HTML5 content, and
diff erent versions of Internet Explorer are used by approximately 60 percent of users around
the world. You can still use HTML5 and help users with older versions of Internet Explorer
to view your site through the use of JavaScript.

Sites such as HTML5boilerplate.com provide templates to help you start building HTML5 sites.