This is an example page written in HTML 5, CSS 2.1 / 3 and Microformats. Your experience may vary depending on your choice of browser. Read the accompanying post here.
The opening html tag when expanded with a few attributes is a real boon for increasing the accessibility of your web pages. In this the third article in my “From the Top” series, I’ll introduce each of those attributes and explain the benefits of their use.
Content negotiation at its simplest is a conversation between your web server and a user agent (browser, search engine bot etc) to determine the preferred format or version of a resource to serve. In this, the second in my article series “From the Top” I will introduce you to the web (head) waiter that knows how to correctly serve your web page to a user agent.
“From the Top” is a series of articles that I am publishing to concisely explain how and why to construct a high quality, web-standards compliant head section for a web page. I’m starting at line 2 of the web page with this first article by examining the Document Type Definition (DTD). Line 2? Tune in same time next week to learn what you might find at line 1.