HTML 5 specification!

A new draft of the HTML 5 specification is available at this address.
The changes are huge :blink:
  • It's fully basically backwards compatible, which is good; but there are tons of new additions.
  • These sections impressed me most:
    3.1. New Elements especially the INPUT part and the audio/video tags.
    3.2. New Attributes... the "ping" attribute for links :wtf: autofocus :O inputmode :wub: new input constraints :bow: asynchronous scripts :ph34r: context menus :grog: drag & drop API :D
  • Also the tag "names" don't exist anymore, they're replaced by IDs only... which is a good thing IMO, using names & ID could sometimes be confusing.
  • Most of the presentational attributes in tags were removed (such as the "align" property) because they are now handled by CSS. A good thing again, since you used to be able to go like <td align="left" style="text-align: center"> and it would behave differently according to the browser you're using. The main attributes that were removed are: align & valign, background & bgcolor, border, cellpadding/cellspacing, height & width, size, style (WTF? you can't use the style attribute anymore? NOOOOOO) ...
  • Some interesting APIs are also introduced: 2D drawing API, video and audio playback :wtf: , persistent storage :wtf: , drag & drop API, network API, and a couple more.
What an interesting read!
This going to be like a new WWW... Wow.
HTML engine developpers (gecko/IE mainly) are going to have a lot of work on their plate.
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PS: sorry for the overuse of emoticons. I'm thrilled.

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The Teej
Oh joy, that's gonna take a while to learn. Talk about up-ending the tea table...

I'm so glad I moved out of web development...
 
G
And now start the usual procedure :
for each browser :
1) roll a 100-hundred faces dice
2) implement the number % of the specification

Overall constraint : make sure browsers implementation are the least overlapping, and when they do, make sure they choosed non compatible interpretation of the specif.
 
Costello
quelle mauvaise langue :P

nowadays browsers tend to comply a lot more with the standards and specifications: I even heard that IE 8 passed the Ac!d 2 test (something like that).
 
FAST6191
Looks like adblock/noscript is going to become more than a nicety and probably about 30 megs and to clock 10% runtime to boot.
 
CockroachMan
Lots of changes! :wtf:
I was not expecting that much stuff.. passing all the style responsibility to CSS is a good thing.. now you know were all you're styles definitions are! :D

What screws everything is that a lot of people still use IE6.. it'll take some time till HTML5 becomes standard.. :(
 
Cyan
Also the tag "names" don't exist anymore, they're replaced by IDs only... which is a good thing IMO, using names & ID could sometimes be confusing.
Click to expand...
I'm using the "name" tag with javascript to apply same effect to multiple element, as ID is a little hard to use because it has to be unique.

no more "style" except on font tag ? We will need to use ID everywhere ? If the same style is used all over the page, we can't use same ID for each element.

Also no more frame/framset.

New elements and attributes are interesting (and maybe useless, like the Dialogue element).
 
Psyfira
[quote name='Cyan' date='Jan 28 2008, 11:49 AM']no more "style" except on font tag ? We will need to use ID everywhere ? If the same style is used all over the page, we can't use same ID for each element.[/quote]I think "class" is what you're after; does the same job as ID but can be used for multiple elements, and if I'm reading the HTML 5 spec correctly it can now be used on any element. Not that I knew it couldn't before :unsure:
 

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