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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RE[2]: Resolution Independence in HTML 5
by andrewg on Wed 23rd Jan 2008 08:42
in reply to "RE: Resolution Independence in HTML 5"
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Not really. If you specify something in pixels e.g. font sizes, column widths, images then it makes things much harder for the OS. It has to scale things based on pixel density which I think will lead to differences between OS's because of implementation.
But really sites need to be designed in terms of flexible units that the user can easily scale and preferably provide default dimensions in terms of some unit of length. I think pts are fine for text.
Then you can setup your style sheets for different device types.
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2005-07-22
That's more of an OS problem than something that needs to be addressed in HTML.