On Jan 25, 2011, at 1:52 AM, David Dorward wrote: > > On 25 Jan 2011, at 08:34, Steve Green wrote: > >> You can use it, but will anyone benefit from it? Assistive technologies >> don't support much, if any, of the new semantics. I don't know if search >> engines and other users of programmatic access to websites are currently >> able to make use of HTML5 markup, but I have not seen anything to indicate >> that they do. So what exactly is the benefit? > > It saves having to rewrite the site when AT, SEs, etc do have significant > support for them. > >
How about the new assistive devices such as iPhone and iPad that have become quite trendy for blind people? Apple, FWIK, actively promoting HTML5. As for SEO, I don't have any data to back it up, but based on a few sites I built on HTML5 using HTML5 elements, the SEO seems very good from google search. I can publish an article, and within 1 minute it shows up in google search, in the first result page; perhaps one of the reason is that my blog has gained some momentum in terms of SEO, but I do vividly remember it used to take much longer, even if I do the search with combination of company or domain name in it for that specific article, it never show up in the first page when the site was on XHTML. I suspect Google and Bing must be adding HTML5 into their search algorithm but they just don't acknowledge it. tee ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
