(This document is part of an effort to flesh out use cases for microdata inclusion in HTML5. See the original use case document, and the background material document as well as the email correspondence that best describes this process.) ————– USE CASE: Allow authors to annotate their documents to highlight the key parts, e.g. as when a student highlights […]
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As you may have noticed and will continue to notice, my sites are changing. Sometimes not for the better, as I try something out and it doesn’t work. All of this effort is for my new book, which will include coverage of web page markup, in addition to other technologies, though the book will end […]
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HTML4 is to markup
In an interview at WebScienceMan titled, XHTML Users: Grow up!, the interviewee, Sitepoint’s Tommy Olsson answers a question as to whether he likes XHTML with, Grow up! 🙂 Seriously, XHTML is long dead, due to a decade of horrible abuse. Not even the bleached bones remain.. Mr. Olsson believes that we should be using HTML 4, strict […]
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HTML5: Put up or shut up
Sam Ruby I question the presumption implicit in the notions of “the” editor, and “the” spec. I reluctantly accept the notion that any individual spec development process need not employ processes requiring consensus or voting, but I reject any implication, however subtle, of inevitability or entitlement. Simply put, there needs to be a recourse if […]
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Extensibility and markup, again and again
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Proving that the issues with extensibility will never go away until faced, and resolved: Anne van Kesteren: Concerns that HTML5 does not have distributed extensibility. That is, namespaces. What people seem to want is to extend the browser with hundreds of markup languages. (How this keeps things simple to answer […]