At last count, I believe the HTML5 specification is adding 35 new elements, give or take a couple. That’s a lot of new elements. So what, we say. After all, it’s just a bit of text in a specification. Unfortunately, new elements are more than just a bit of text. They have to be supported […]
Month: March 2010
Summmary Summary: Remove the figure element. Rationale The following is the text for the initial bug[1] associated with this Issue: Currently the HTML5 specification has an overly broad definition about what can be allowed in a figure element: “The element can thus be used to annotate illustrations, diagrams, photos, code listings, etc, that are referred […]
Summary Summary: Remove the aside element. Rationale Originally, my request for the aside element was to tighten its focus, and clean up the allowable content and usage. As I discovered with the figure element, though, covered in the Issue 90 change proposal, the more I looked at the element the harder time I had finding […]
Summary Summary: Replace too-simple and somewhat odd example table and verbose text unrelated to the table element, with one example table, derived from real world data that best demonstrates the table element. Refocus the text specifically on the table element. Rationale In the bug[1] related to this issue, the HTML5 Editor’s rationale for not make […]
Summary Remove the srcdoc attribute. Rationale The original bug report for removing srcdoc provided the following change request[1]: This recent entry does not have universal acceptance, and the group was still discussing it when the editor added it to the specification. The supposed use case for this attribute is weblog comments, but concerns about HTML […]