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Drupal 7 Media

You're reading from   Drupal 7 Media Integrate, implement, and extend rich media resources such as images, videos, and audio on your Drupal 7 website with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516082
Length 260 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Liran Tal Liran Tal
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One of HTML5's primary goals was to provide a more semantic web, replacing all the <div> and other elements with their class and ID attributes with better-suited elements, such as <article>, <section>, <nav>, and others. In doing that, it was intended to achieve a more semantic document, but what does it mean exactly? In Tim Berners-Lee's own words "the Web will be a place where the whim of a human being and the reasoning of a machine coexist in an ideal, powerful mixture".

This basically means that by creating a more structured web, machines will also be able to understand it and put it into a relative context. Let's identify some real-world examples as follows:

  • A pre-HTML5 website might have used the <input type="text"/> element to specify a text field for users to provide their phone number. While a desktop user would not mind this, mobile users would find it quite annoying to fill such a field using the full keyboard. Furthermore, on most...

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