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		rgr on Oct 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What does HTML5 mean for us? If I were designing html5 I would have removed a bunch of redundant tags instead of adding new ones.

ido on Oct 29, 2009 [–]

Some tags were removed from html 5:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#absent-elements

idoh on Oct 30, 2009 | [–]

Hey, nice to see another Ido on the site.

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