HTML 5 specification!

[Costello]

A new draft of the HTML 5 specification is available at this address.
The changes are huge

• 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
  
  autofocus
  
  inputmode
  
  new input constraints
  
  asynchronous scripts
  
  context menus
  
  drag & drop API
  
• 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 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
  
  , persistent storage
  
  , 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.

Read article

PS: sorry for the overuse of emoticons. I'm thrilled.

 

[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...

 

[Deleted User]

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

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!

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!

What screws everything is that a lot of people still use IE6.. it'll take some time till HTML5 becomes standard..

 

[xJonny]

A lot of changes - but it will make it a lot better probably

 

[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.

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]

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.

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