HTML 5 - the evolving tag soup
Jukka K. Korpela
press release http://www.w3.org/2007/03/html-pressrelease , the Consortium
has decided that HTML 5 is a good idea if they define it.
They want to be "compatible" wíth "'classic HTML' parsers", which presumably
means that HTML 5 documents must make sense when rendered by existing tag
soup processors.
They also want all kinds of widgets and gadgets and extras, as outlined at
http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter.html
I didn't find anything referring to a semantically richer language, so this
probably won't be another HTML 3. Rather, it'll be HTML 4 extended with
<embed> (under a different name), if you see what I mean.
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Henri Sivonen
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkor...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> As you can see from the W3C main page now, http://www.w3.org , or from the
> press release http://www.w3.org/2007/03/html-pressrelease , the Consortium
> has decided that HTML 5 is a good idea if they define it.
>
> They want to be "compatible" wíth "'classic HTML' parsers", which presumably
> means that HTML 5 documents must make sense when rendered by existing tag
> soup processors.
More to the point, the parsing algorithm for HTML5 should cope with
existing content. HTML5 should degrade reasonably gracefully as well.
> They also want all kinds of widgets and gadgets and extras, as outlined at
> http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter.html
>
> I didn't find anything referring to a semantically richer language, so this
> probably won't be another HTML 3. Rather, it'll be HTML 4 extended with
> <embed> (under a different name), if you see what I mean.
Apple, Opera and Mozilla have proposed that the new HTML WG adopt WHATWG
HTML5 as the starting point.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0429.html
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