Comments on: What can we expect from HTML 5?

By: NoEasyAnswers

NoEasyAnswers — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:36:57 +0000

I think the future of HTML is interesting, and I look forward to the finalized specs of HTML5 and CSS3. But both are worthless until browsers actively support them. I unfortunately still have to write terrible code to support IE6 and IE7. Even some very basic pieces of code operate poorly on Firefox.

Love the info, it’ll be great to see where it goes, but we need standard browsers before it matters

By: clickfire

clickfire — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:02:51 +0000

Great post. Looks like I’ll have to say goodbye to the big and center elements.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:59:49 +0000

Nice post. Thumbs on on SU. I enjoyed the wrap up of the large confusing draft.

By: paresh

paresh — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:42:31 +0000

great article, thanks for sharing.

By: Samer Ziadeh

Samer Ziadeh — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:45:53 +0000

I love it. Can’t wait for it.
But in the end won’t the elements article… be aliases for div

By: AzAkers

AzAkers — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:00:12 +0000

Very nice – thanks for the easier to consume overview!

I’m sure the changes will meet with some measure of contraversey and discussion, but most of it appears to be natural progression stuff with attention paid to marrying up HTML 5 nicely & CSS 3 for more effeciency and less crossover of responsibilities.

Thanks again for the post!

By: Jose Noheda

Jose Noheda — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:16:23 +0000

Useless?? Can you just imagine the number of things that will be supported by the browser instead of via JS code? In addition cleaner markup is a big step forward. Have you ever tried to maintain an app build with framesets? All in all I find it a BIG improvement. The new APIs are awesome

By: cowardly dragon

cowardly dragon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:36:26 +0000

And the killer app/tag is?

What does this really provide that makes transition, reformatting, rewriting of code, browser development, and all that, worthwhile?

I don’t see a single tag I care about. While I may not use the deprecated tags frequently, that doesn’t mean they should be removed.

I’ve heard HTML5 will include a base google gears local storage capability. That sounds nice. A better multithreading model on the browser above and beyond the one AJAX background thread would be nice.

But this? Useless.

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:07:47 +0000

there are too many people and designers relying on html4 to see this work out into a “standard” online.