Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 384
foo fighter writes "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been slumbering the past several years: HTML was last updated in 1999, XHTML was last updated in 2002, and no one is taking seriously their largely incompatible work on 'next-generation' XHTML or 'modularized' XHTML. Both HTML and XHTML are in sorry need of removing deprecated items while being updated to reflect the current practices of web and browser developers and remaining compatible with legacy Recommendations. The much more open and transparent WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group), formed in 2004 to address this problem, and has been hard at work on developing a draft spec for HTML5 to update and replace legacy versions of both HTML and XHTML. The quality of this work has reached the point that Apple, Opera, and Mozilla have requested the adoption of HTML5 as the new 'W3C Recommendation' for Web development."
I started to (Score:5, Funny)
5??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The More they add, the less I like (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The More they add, the less I like (Score:3, Funny)
That...can be arranged.
CHris Mattern
Re:The More they add, the less I like (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, because MS FrontPage would never output broken HTML, would it?
Re:A bit premature? (Score:3, Funny)
Dear W3C, (Score:3, Funny)
What would it do? You have to ask!?
Yours,
the early 1990s
Re:I started to (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The More they add, the less I like (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How will this effect IE7 (Score:2, Funny)
No. IE7 is already out now, and MS would be silly to give the next version the same version number as the current version.
Re:Firefox plugin (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The More they add, the less I like (Score:5, Funny)
Unless you're a Slashdot regular, of course.
Torben
Re:This could be the leverage needed against MS (Score:4, Funny)
It could be dangerous
I want a AJAX tag :p (Score:2, Funny)
<curvedcorners>Bling Bling</curvedcorners>
and maybe they will implement the </sarcasm> tag, no opener needed