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#HTML5 Neat HTML5 features: Ruby without rails | Intel® Developer Zone: I was looking through t... #HTML #webdesign

I was looking through the new HTML5 tags and noticed the tag “ruby”. Of course I wanted to know what this tag does. So I googled and found this great article: http://html5doctor.com/ruby-rt-rp-element/. It explains it quite well. Or look here for all the gory details: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/text-level-semantics.html#the-ruby-element In short the “ruby” tag allows annotating words with pronunciation hints which are often used for East Asian languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. You might have seen those hints in Chinese or Japanese books or in the credits of movies. Those hints are the little characters above words which tell you how to pronounce them. The “ruby” tag doesn't come alone. It brings as companions the “rt” and “rp” tags. So what do they do? The “ruby” tag encloses the words that you want to markup. Inside the “ruby” "environment...

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