Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Jan 2008 21:28 UTC, submitted by irbis
"W3C today published an early draft of HTML 5, a major revision of the markup language for the Web. The HTML Working Group is creating HTML 5 to be the open, royalty-free specification for rich Web content and Web applications. The group operates entirely in public with nearly five hundred participants, including representatives from W3C Members ACCESS, AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera. Some of the most interesting new features for authors are APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics, embedding and controlling audio and video content, maintaining persistent client-side data storage, and for enabling users to edit documents and parts of documents interactively. Authors write HTML 5 using either a 'classic' HTML syntax or an XML syntax, according to application demands. See a list of changes from HTML 4."
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I'll be excited when they give up the "design by committee" and impose a strict unambiguous XML HTML.
Such a HTML standard would:
* fail pages with even minor errors - lets have the end of lazy and lax coding.
* provide a standard set of comprehensive tests which would certify browsers, both by capability and correctness but also performance. This may mean versions of browsers may fail or regress - it would also point the finger at non-compliance from browsers such as MSIE.
* do away with all presentation tags - HTML for content only, CSS for styling.
In the absence of the above, HTML5 will not have addressed the biggest problems of the previous standards. The biggest pain is divergent browsers and the refusal to accept responsibility. A strict and unambiguous HTML would finally point the finger where it belongs.