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32 | Lesson 2dates machine-readable on your Web page is that it helps search engines produce bettersearch results. For example: means the year 2013 means April 2013 means 15 April (any year)LICENSED PRODUCT NOT FOR RESALETwo other new elements are meter and progress. The meter element indicates content that’s afraction of a known range, such as disk usage. The progress element indicates the progress ofa task towards completion.Figure 2-8The mark element highlightsspecific textUSE THE MARK ELEMENTGET READY. To use the mark element to highlight text, perform the following steps:1. In your editing tool, open L2-pet-modified.html if it’s not already open.2. Modify the following paragraph by inserting the mark element around the text“friend for life”.Your dog is a friend for life.3. Create a new file by saving it as L2-pet-mark.html and view it in a Web browser.Figure 2-8 shows the highlighted text.Highlighted text4. Leave the editing tool and Web browser open if you’re continuing immediately to thenext section.Text Elements Not Used in HTML5While new elements become available, the W3C earmarks other elements for eventualremoval because their functionality is no longer useful. Removing elements from thelist of available HTML elements is referred to as deprecation. (The same thing appliesto attributes.)X REFLesson 4 explores CSSessentials and the separationof presentation(style) from content.Deprecation may be due to a new element replacing the functionality of an older element, orthe preference of a new method of formatting over an older element.An example of the latteris formatting with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Using CSS to change the look and feel oftext, images, and other Web content separates style from content. The W3C has beennudging developers toward using CSS to control Web page formatting instead of usinglocal formatting for quite some time, and it’s clearly the method to be used in HTML5.