At RealTech:
Here's some cold, hard reality for Ian et al: this isn't a proposal from folks like me, who have little say, and no power. This proposal comes from Microsoft. Microsoft, who still maintains a dominant position when it comes to browser use in the world. The HTML5 editor cannot simply ignore the proposal, pretend he doesn't understand it, or rubber stamp it WONTFIX. Not this time.
More playing with SVGWeb at RealTech. It's a wonderful library, and the people who created it should be proud of their hard work. Once the 100% width, height issue is fixed, I'm considering using it for all of my sites.
But working with the library leaves me wondering about past decisions made with HTML5, including the "horrors" of mixing XML and HTML.
Two new stories in RealTech:
SVG in HTML covering my experiments with SVG in HTML5, and the new SVGWeb library.
Resulting in the second article: This page isn't valid...and who cares?.
Recently, a group of well known web designers issued a "Super Friends" declaration of support or HTML5, with an attached set of concerns. Most of the concerns had to do with the new "semantic markup" elements included in HTML5, such as section, article, and so on. I've not previously discussed these new semantic page markup elements, because I had other fish to fry. However, I decided to take a closer look at the elements, particularly at how I would use them for my Drupal sites.
Continue reading at RealTech...
I did turn the comments back on for the post, Maxwell's Silver Hammer: RDFa and HTML5's Microdata. Well, until the post gets overrun by spam, or until the crickets chirping drive me batty, whichever happens first.
My idea of comments on this site, and redirecting from the others didn't work. It left people confused, and the connection ended up being overly complicated. I figured, when it seems right to open comments, I will.
Speaking of communication, it's always fun to read stuff like the following in the WhatWG IRC logs:
[23:02] TabAtkins: Like, okay, I dislike Shelley Power. I *really* dislike her. But she performs a very valuable service by strongly disagreeing with stuff, and offering reasons why she disagrees that you can actually address. I rarely agree with her reasons, but I can *understand* them, and that's really useful to have.
Probably one of the many reasons why the HTML WG is not a place for me. Oh, not so much the acrimony, though lordie knows there's a lot of that. But, for better or worse, I'm a writer. I may not be the best writer. I'm certainly not the most successful writer. But writing is how I best contribute back to the tech world. I can do more, writing in my space, then I ever can on the HTML WG.
Including writing about my newest experiments with Drupal 7. Yes, I'm walking on the wild side, and have installed a Drupal 7 site. I am über geek woman, hear me type.
