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HTML5 Semantics: you too can be a bedwetting antfucker by Bruce Lawson · Fronteers. Video Slides See slides on SlideShare Transcript Bruce Lawson: [0:05] Hi.
So I get the after-lunch spot when you're all sleepy and I am talking about dull shit like HTML5 Semantics, so feel free to drop-off. . [0:30] So the subtitle of this talk is "You, too, can be a bedwetting ant-fucker. " [0:49] It's kind of quite tricky talking about semantics because there is this belief that people who are interested in semantics are very, very anally retentive.
. [1:23] The reason is, is that semantics are to do with words, they're to do with meaning, they're to do with human concerns like that. . [2:03] I was going to call this "You, too, can be a bedwetting hairsplitter. " [2:52] So HTML5 gives us 30 new elements, so, in HTML now we have about 105 elements. . [3:48] Another good thing about HTML5 is it frees us from the tyranny of XML parsing.
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