<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">It's more for correctness / semantics. Like calling the two pieces of rubber you wear on your feet flip flops instead of rubber. As for their usefulness, I don't really see any. SEO? How about focusing on user experience and making a useful product? Also to get them to work in older browsers you need workarounds like Modernizr which adds extra kilobytes.<div><br></div><div>I still use DIVs and don't see myself using HTML5 elements any soon.<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Feb 27, 2012, at 7:37 PM, TD wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi every body,<br>although I'm an experienced web developer, I'm new at html5 and I'm trying to improve my skills in it.<br><br>I have discovered the following tags: header and footer.<br><br>While I understand that these tags help to structure the content of our pages - which is always a good thing -, I don't really understand their usefulness.<br>
<br>Is it for accessiblity reasons: is it used by some special software?<br>Is it for seo reasons: is our content better referenced if we use it?<br><br>Are there some other reasons that make it really useful and enough important to give up old way of structuring code:(<div id="header">, <div id="footer"> etc ...) <br>
<br><br>Best regards,<br>Tanoor. <br>
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