HTML 5 markup for widgets
Hi all,
I am new here but a long time user of jquery UI. I am starting my activity in this space with an idea:
- should the widgets use the new html5 semantic tags?
I think this is a great help for developers because it would make the markup of the widgets much cleaner and easy to remember. I blogged about this but you dont have to go there, the key idea is most widgets represent paradigms that are easy to follow with semantic tags:
- accordion is a TOC and a TOC in html 5 can be a nav element with more sections below it
- tabs are a space saving element that can easily compress details on screen, in html 5 we can have a list of details tags and the name of the tab could be the text of the summary element.
And so on. With semantic tags one doesnt need to check the docs when mockuping that PSD anymore :)