html - Is there an advantage of the new HTML5 elements?

Question

HTML5 introduces some nice new elements, <canvas>, <audio>, and <video>, that will be useful in web design.

What I don't se is the point of the new <section>, <header>, <nav>, and so on.

I can see a use if you're a very small web designer, in that they might have user agent stylesheet CSS rules (A bit like <blockquote> is similar to <div>, just has margins as well.)

However, if you're designing a bigger site, you will probably have you're own CSS rules for things like these, so there won't be any benefit.

So s there any real advantage of using these elements?

Answer 1

The advantage is mainly semantic. It's somewhat easier to maintain the code, and web crawlers can more easily determine where certain information is in the page.