Day 1

Started reading Bruce Lawson & Remy Sharp’s Introducing HTML 5 – interesting and engagingly written. This is going to be fun! I didn’t get a huge way into the book yet, but far enough to discover that while most browsers will just treat HTML 5 tags as unknown tags and allow them to be styled with CSS however you wish, A Certain Browser which really doesn’t need to be named, spits the dummy and apparently won’t style them at all without a little JavaScript jiggery-pokery. Which of course means in A Certain Browser, stuff’s going to break. I’m going to have to do some research, I think, into stats on my current site to see if I can find out about anything about what my current users are doing. Really DON’T want to have to make a separate version for IE…

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