BurningbirdWeb and tech standards
The HTML 5 specification is too large, that’s a given. Too large, and too diverse. With the merge of the DOM into the specification, as well as an attempt to cover two different serializations, not to mention the microdata section, it’s difficult to describe the HTML 5 spec as an “improvement on HTML 4”, which […]
Next up in my series HTML5: A Story in Progress is a final discussion on the table summary attribute, as well as new discussion on the HTML5 table examples, and the introduction of an HTML5 Primer. Read more at RealTech: One Table in a Thousand.. By providing the differing, and I feel complementary table documentation techniques and examples, […]
Continuing with the discussion on the table element, began in the last page of this series, another change I would make in section 4.9.2 of the HTML 5 specification is to the example tables. First though, I want to return to the summary attribute one more time, before moving on to other topics. The decision […]
First up for my HTML5: A Story in Progress is Deprecated is now Obsolete. It was an elegant process, for an elegant time. We gently pushed the no longer wanted attributes and elements over a hill and out of sight. We don’t have markup hills now, in HTML 5, we have markup cliffs. We haven’t taken […]
The HTML WG continues its endless round of argument. Like Ouroboros, it seems intent on swallowing its own tail, all of which has left me in a quandary: I can’t stand anything to do with the email lists anymore, but I really can’t sit still and let the HTML 5 document be released, as is, […]