HTML5 browser support

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Hi

I’d like to use HTML5 doctype () and the new elements such as “header” “footer” “nav” etc.

I don’t want to do anything fancy, just the above.

What browsers support this? And what happens if a browser doesn’t support / understand the above?

Thanks

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just read the relevant bit in “HTML5 for web designers”. It would seem that the new doctype is compatible with all browsers.

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Browsers will have no problem with the doctype, older browsers will have issues with the news elements (header, nav, footer, etc.) which is handled by the shiv code automatically inserted in the head of your FWP doc… So, no worries, full speed ahead.

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On Oct 10, 2013, at 6:36 AM, “Mark” email@hidden wrote:

just read the relevant bit in “HTML5 for web designers”. It would seem that the new doctype is compatible with all browsers.

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Hi Earnie

Thanks for that. I’ve been looking at the following (HTML5) code that FW generated:

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="resources/homescreen_icon.png">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="resources/favicon.png" type="image/png">
<link rel="icon" href="resources/favicon.png" type="image/png">

“apple-touch-icon” uses hyphens. Should “shortcut icon”?

My understanding is that in HTML5 we don’t need to specify a type value of “text/css” when linking to a stylesheet. I can’t find any info, on whether we can also drop "type=“image/png”>. The iOS Homescreen Icon Action hasn’t generated this type value, but the Favicon Action has.

FYI I’m going to be hand tweaking the FW code.

Thanks

Mark

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Freeway rarely writes anything extraneous in any doctype. It’s a stickler for detail that way. As to the shortcut icon, that is how you write that. If you wanted to be pedantic, you would write two link tags to the same file, one named shortcut and one named icon. This is correct, and shorter. Finally, icons are supposed to be in the Windows ICO format, so any time you stray from that by using an alternative format, you must tell the browser it’s mime-type.

Walter

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You’re asking about correct html5 syntax, yet have never bothered to get my
name right?

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Whoops, I’m so sorry about that. That’s embarrassing for me, after all the help you’ve given me. Sorry

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Hi Walter

Thanks for your reply.

I’ve been playing around with ico format - favicons look a whole lot better as pngs if you want a transparent background. But surprise surprise IE doesn’t support png favicons…

Cheers

Mark

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