HTML5 and Jordan

HTML 5 has a lot of changes in an attempt to make it easier to develop a standard-based web page. The first thing in those changes is DOCTYPE declaration. HTML5 introduces a new DOCTYPE, which looks like this: The declaration is placed before the tag. This tag tells the browser which HTML specification the document [...]

HTML 5 has a lot of changes in an attempt to make it easier to develop a standard-based web page. The first thing in those changes is DOCTYPE declaration. HTML5 introduces a new DOCTYPE, which looks like this:

The declaration is placed before the tag. This tag tells the browser which HTML specification the document uses. It is an instruction to the web browser about what version of the markup language the page is written in. (It is important that you specify the DOCTYPE in all HTML documents, so that the browser knows what type of document to expect.)

This HTML5 DOCTYPE is much simpler than most of the previous DOCTYPEs, it does not require a reference to a DTD, but it recommend to still use the DOCTYPE for browsers to behave as they should. 

The good part is this new DOCTYPE is backward compatible with html4 and XHTML.  So all current browsers (IE, FF, Opera, Safari) will look at this new DOCTYPE and switch the content into standards mode – even though they don’t implement HTML5.

Developers could start writing web pages using the new DOCTYPE today with HTML4-like stable featured markup while honouring things that have been clarified in HTML5.

How this effect SEO ?

Well it will make it fun easy and much faster to see results for sure ..Some elements to consider: 

  1. HTML 5 definitely has an XML-style of presenting Information. This structure could make search engine friendliness easier than ever.
  2. There is a new Header tag, semantically equivalent to a H1, which could contain long structured texts. In this header tag, you can have H1, H2, H3 elements, paragraphs, hard-coded links (oh yeah!), versioning info, copyright info, etc.
  3. The new section element, “article,” should simplify categorization of the content on blogs, news sites, forums, etc. This will help reduce the number of divs necessary for a good display of information and make cleaner, lighter codes.
  4. New phrase elements, such as “Time” and “Meter,” will help build a “respectable/librarian” feel to a page (giving some trust?).
  5. Other phrase elements, such as “marked,” will make the “strong” and “em” tags seem boring.
  6. A new interactive element, “details,” that can hide extra information until activated. This one can be used for “aggressive” or “clean” SEO; we all know how hidden elements work…
  7. Embedded media elements such as video and audio will be easy to optimize. The tags “video” and “audio” are self-sufficient and the alternative descriptions, for legacy browser and accessibility, are included within those tags (not necessary to use a “noscript”). Those tags must be my favorite in HTML 5.

When it will come to middle east? To Jordan ?

we don’t see it coming soon , we had couple of phone conferences shopping around for a design company with HTML5 experience with No luck so far…but what that means ?

There is a Jordanian website cooking with HTML5 YeeeY…We will propose it next week, once we get OK , i think personally we will be first to bring HTML5 to jordan with that scale

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