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 […]
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How is the ongoing debate about HTML5/Microdata and RDFa like a Beatles’ song? Read more at Bb RealTech: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer: RDFa and HTML5’s Microdata. I’ve turned comments back on, at least until I get overrun by spam, or the crickets get too loud.
I’m not sure why the WhatWG folks thought that keeping an open door to the Twitter @whatwg account on the front page of their web site is a good idea, but it’s been interesting watching the *updates. Most are pretty juvenile, but there’s been some interesting snark along the way. Mostly, the posts have been by people asking why […]
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Manu Sporny and Ian Hickson have had an interesting, and telling, exchange about RDFa and microdata in the HTML WG list (see the opening email for the thread). In one of the emails, Hickson writes about why he created a whole new microdata section, rather than incorporate RDFa: By “technical problems” I mean problems with the design, as opposed […]
Latest in my HTML5, A Story in Progress: Separating Canvas out of HTML 5. Recent discussions about Canvas and accessibility should highlight the importance of pulling the Canvas object API from the HTML 5 specification. The HTML WG went outside its charter to incorporate the Canvas API into the HTML 5 specification. Keeping it in is […]