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New Elements for Annotation

<mark>…</mark>

To highlight text referenced from another context
—emphasis mine.

<small>…</small>

For the fine print and legal disclaimers
<small>NO WARRANTY IS IMPLIED ... </small>

<time>…</time>

To provide a machine understand-able timestamp
<time pubdate="true" datetime="2010-10-16">Sat. Oct 10th 2010</time>

<figure>…</figure>

A saner way to add captions to a images, tables, etc.

<figure id="figure1">
  <figcaption>Figure 1</figcaption>
  <img src="..." />
  <table>
    ...
  </table>
</figure>

Only one figcaption element per figure.
The figcaption must be either the first or last child of a figure element