by Daniel Davies

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In need of some touch ups, I started a redesign of this site (http://www.danux.co.uk) a couple of days ago. I thought it might be fun to give HTML 5 a go, so here it is!

I've had a pretty mixed experience, while the coding was pretty simple, and made a lot of sense, I'm about the go to war with browsers to get the site rendering correctly every where.

Internet Exlporer won't play nice at all, the navigation is broken, as well as the "Keep Current" alignment. Firefox 3.5 is having problems too, and Firefox and Safari cannot agree on how to absolutely position things. Opera seems to be quite anti-sprites.

Other than that though, its all good. Next I need to rewrite some of the copy on the site, write the new "work" section, and try to brigten things up.

Have you had a go at HTML 5 yet and how did you find it? What's holding you back if you haven't?

Talk about Hello HTML 5!

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re: Hello HTML 5!

Posted by Daniel Davies

Thanks for the comment Andy. You can also achieve the same through another method that javascript free. I think this would do pretty much the same, as most browsers regard unknown elements as inline.

article, aside, footer, header, nav {
display: block;
}

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re: Hello HTML 5!

Posted by Daniel Davies

I've tried both the JavaScript method, and the CSS method.

Sadly, the CSS method doesn't work at all in IE. The page was an absolute mess, as was any CSS referenced within.

I am however pleased to say that the JavaScript does work. The site now renders in IE7 with no modification to the html5 or css.

Great find, thanks Andy

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