web designer + front-end developer
This is a simple script that I’ve been tinkering with for a while after wondering aloud if it were possible.
The idea is simple – using JavaScript (well, jQuery, anyway) swap in HTML ligatures on select elements. This is intended to be a decorative flourish of fine typography – don’t use this on your body copy.
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The WHATWG has helpfully put out a version of the HTML5 spec that is aimed at web developers. It takes the full spec, and removes the stuff that only browser manufacturers need to know.
Reading specs is pretty dull work, but they’ve done their best to make a nice presentation. At the very least, reading over the outline will give you a good understanding of the scope of HTML5.
I am a little confused as to how this meshes with the newly christened HTML (no 5) “living spec”, but that is another semantic argument.