When last I posted, I was confident I would be finished with my change proposals for the HTML5 by now. Little did I suspect at how strong a reaction my proposals would have, or how emotional the discussions would become. Some of the responses were humorous, such as when I was called a “deletionist”, of […]
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Tech specs
One of my HTML5 change proposals is to remove the details element[12]. The HTML5 specification states[1]: The Details represents a disclosure widget from which users can obtain additional information or controls. Two examples of the use of Details are given: one used with additional information, and one used with form elements. Whether the details body […]
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HTML5 status and when not to tweet
I’m in the process of rolling out some change proposals and bug reports for HTML5. I had volunteered to help with reviewing MathML during Last Call, and submitting comments for the HTML WG. Unfortunately, the process did not go smoothly. In the meantime, this week was the W3C’s TPAC meeting, where all the boys and […]
Per Sam Ruby, Microsoft has submitted a proposal for distributed extensibility in HTML5, which features the use of namespaces. The proposal uses reverse DNS names, but other than those ugly sons-of-bitches, it looks promising. There are some issues, including no support for innerHTML on namespaced elements, because they would end up defined as Element, not HTMLUnknownElement, but […]
Well, that was exciting. I wasn’t sure what was happening with my sites, since Drupal throws up a maintenance page automatically when it can’t get a database connection. My ISP is still investigating what caused the problems. In the meantime, the WhatWG IRC log is interesting reading today, including the following quote about HTML5 and Last Call, […]