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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @01:49PM from the not-so-patiently-waiting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Pure HTML enhancements hardly grew at all in the last eight years. Forward motion basically stopped in 1999 with HTML 4. Now the future looks bright. Recently, HTML has come back to life with HTML 5. Tons of new elements will be available for structure (article, nav, section, etc.), block semantic elements (aside, figure, dialog), and several other functions."

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Oh noes! (Score:4, Funny)

by HitekHobo ( 1132869 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @01:51PM (#20159461) Homepage

And here I was thinking that solved all of my web design problems. Now I might have to learn a second type of tag!

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Oh great... (Score:5, Funny)

by Bazman ( 4849 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @01:54PM (#20159493) Journal

More things for IE to not support properly.

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How about a Declarations area? (Score:3, Funny)

by WED Fan ( 911325 ) writes: <akahige@NOspAm.trashmail.net> on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @01:54PM (#20159497) Homepage Journal

I'd like to see an ability to use a <Declaration> area, then you can use inline (Declare @xxx) or linked (Imports xxx.x) definitions and such.

Just an idea.

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I'll tell you why... (Score:2, Funny)

by Orig_Club_Soda ( 983823 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @01:55PM (#20159519) Journal

Its because everyone is hyping CSS and its practically terrorism to use HTML.

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Web 1.0 (Score:3, Funny)

by Applekid ( 993327 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @01:56PM (#20159537)

TFA:
This new version of HTML--usually called HTML 5, although it also goes under the name Web Applications 1.0--would be instantly recognizable to a Web designer frozen in ice in 1999 and thawed today.
If you were like me with all the talk about Web 2.0, what happened to Web 1.0, well, here it is. Neat, kind of like Merlyn aging backwards.

I'm looking forward to Web RC1 in the next 5 years.

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Up to now, new HTML elements... (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @01:58PM (#20159563)

...had to be created in an expensive particle accelerator and often decayed before you could hit refresh.

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Still no <bgsound tune, repeat> ? ;-) (Score:5, Funny)

by D4C5CE ( 578304 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @01:59PM (#20159575)

The tag the world's been waiting for since 1994...
repeat:byte; 0 = ad nauseam
With MOD [wikipedia.org] support - of course!

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The most greatly wanted tag (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @02:00PM (#20159601)

And, of course, the addition of the long overdue

<dupe>http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?si d=07/07/20/1226235</dupe>

tag.

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Re:Excellent! (Score:5, Funny)

by Conspiracy_Of_Doves ( 236787 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @02:02PM (#20159627)

The whole point of a semantic tag is that it is machine parsable. A script that is interpreting the page will know what parts of the page is the article, which parts are the navigation, which parts are the advertisements, and so on.

Actually, they need to put in an <ad> tag.

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Announcing (Score:5, Funny)

by Bluesman ( 104513 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @02:03PM (#20159643) Homepage

The BRAND NEW HTML 5!

Almost as good as TeX!

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Re:Excellent! (Score:5, Funny)

by corsec67 ( 627446 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @02:09PM (#20159753) Homepage Journal

Apparently slashdot got rid of it for you...

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I'm in the money! (Score:5, Funny)

by El_Smack ( 267329 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @02:13PM (#20159841)

Sweet! Can I get my $80K a year job back doing HTML for a dotcom?
It's 1999 all over again, baby!

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permablink? (Score:5, Funny)

by jdunlevy ( 187745 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @02:14PM (#20159875) Homepage

I sure hope one of the new elements is finally permablink [kibo.com]!

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Re:Oh great... (Score:4, Funny)

by Praedon ( 707326 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @02:35PM (#20160249) Journal

Somebody set us up the HTML 5
What?
We get new tags
Firefox Turn On
It's new!
How are you gentlemen? All your tags are supported by us

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The <BLINK> Tag (Score:2, Funny)

by sjaguar ( 763407 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @02:38PM (#20160303) Homepage

As long as the tag is left in, I'm good.

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Re:Announcing (Score:3, Funny)

by PipianJ ( 574459 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @02:46PM (#20160469)

Now if W3C gets around to implementing the &tex; entity, I think we'll be all set.

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need more tags (Score:5, Funny)

by El_Muerte_TDS ( 592157 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @03:01PM (#20160675) Homepage

</> close previous open tag <//> close all open tags </fix> instantly fix everything that is wrong with the site <beer> because I need one, preferably a one of class="cold"

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Re:The most greatly wanted tag (Score:5, Funny)

by the_womble ( 580291 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @03:14PM (#20160877) Homepage Journal

actually the most wanted tag is the irony tag.
The problem is that most people on /. will not understand how to use it.

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Re:I'll tell you why... (Score:2, Funny)

by AKAImBatman ( 238306 ) writes: <akaimbatman AT gmail DOT com> on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @03:15PM (#20160897) Homepage Journal

You know, moderations like this are the great mystery of Slashdot. Why is the above post modded Flamebait? Is it not acceptable to be sarcastic to one's own self? If so, why should being sarcastic to one's self involve starting a flamewar? What would be the responses? Somehow, "JSON can indeed be styled with CSS, but you were being sarcastic so off with 'yer head!" doesn't strike me as a realistic scenario.

Maybe it's grumpy moderator day. Um... happy grumpy moderator day? =D =D =D

(Wait, if it's grumpy moderator day, should I really be wishing them a happy day? My head hurts.)

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How about (Score:3, Funny)

by sherriw ( 794536 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @03:21PM (#20160979)

-A height attribute that actually works?
-Looping
-Smarter Form controls
-Eliminate the need for putting a space in empty table cells.
- ???
- Profit!

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Re:Oh great... (Score:3, Funny)

by Bazman ( 4849 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @03:42PM (#20161271) Journal

Didn't you guys read the article? This should be in <dialog> tags...

You have no chance to survive make your <time datetime="2007-04-23T17:35:00-05:00">time</time>

Perhaps HTML5 is designed for the AYB retro nostalgia happening any day now...

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Re:what happened to xhtml? (Score:5, Funny)

by sootman ( 158191 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @05:07PM (#20162413) Homepage Journal

Screw all this. I'm gonna start my own working group... with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the working group.
- That, of course, would belong in the much anticipated <bender> tag.

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Re:Excellent! (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @05:50PM (#20162899)

What does a screen reader on Viagra sound like?

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Re:So... (Score:3, Funny)

by HitekHobo ( 1132869 ) writes: on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @09:20PM (#20164709) Homepage

Yup. Laziness will getcha

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Re:Excellent! (Score:5, Funny)

by kennygraham ( 894697 ) writes: on Thursday August 09, 2007 @12:39AM (#20166009)

Barry White + Stephen Hawking

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