Wading through jam (with heavy shopping)
Just read Lachlan Hunt’s HTML 5 preview on alistapart. Sounds like really interesting stuff - more semantic elements (nav, footer, article etc.) and better multimedia controls. Then, towards the end of the article, I read -
Due to the requirement to produce test cases and achieve interoperable implementations, current estimates have work finishing in around ten to fifteen years.
Ten to fifteen years? Ignoring the fact that in 15 years I want to be spending my time tinkering with my classic car collection and not coding HTML, how is it possible to create a specification that can cope with our expectations 15 years from now?
We should be able to use HTML 5 a lot sooner than then, but it surely can’t take that long for the spec to be recommended. The whole process and organisation of the W3C just baffles me sometimes.
Posted 4 years, 2 months ago
Everytime I read about HTML 5 it saddens me – it just smells like design by commitee with plenty of noise. XHTML2 just feels like the natural progression for me, but then thats possibly the coder in me used to abstracting things.
Never mind...
Andrew Donaldson · www · 4 years, 2 months ago
Some explanation from Anne van Kesteren: http://annevankesteren.nl/2007/12/html5-timeline
Georg Portenkirchner · www · 4 years, 2 months ago
It’d be lovely if browsers refused to display a page unless the underlying (X)HTML actually validated - sort of like a compiler type thing hehe :-)
Steve Woods · www · 4 years, 2 months ago
A noble idea Steve, but I suspect about 90% of the web would disappear! How about browsers automatically adding a subtle warning message/icon to any invalid page? Firefox and IE already do it when they detect a javascript error.
Phil · www · 4 years, 1 month ago