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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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Chapter 4. HTML5 in Drupal

HTML5 transitioned from yet another buzzword that's been circling the web, and a draft spec by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3c.org, to an implemented set of tools that is truly changing the way we interact with the web.

What were we using before HTML5? Well, that would technically be HTML4, which had released its spec back in 1997, with some revisions later on, and other specs such as XHTML. Since then, we counted on numerous JavaScript libraries and browser plugins, to push browser capabilities to its limits. But all of this is ancient history now since HTML5 has revolutionized the web cyberspace once again.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Introducing HTML5

  • HTML5 spec, features, capabilities

  • Using HTML5 in Drupal

Why another HTML spec update? It's just to name a couple of issues that HTML5 targets:

  • Compatibility: The browser ecosystem is very fragmented, with each vendor implementing only parts of the spec that they see relevant, and still, their...

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