BurningbirdManu 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 […]
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 […]
Excellent presentation at OSCON by Kirrily Robert: Standing out in the Crowd about women in open source. One very interesting graphic in the presentation shows that 80% of women in open source noticed sexism or gender discrimination, compared to only 20% of men who noticed. This pretty much backs up what I’ve found every time I’ve pointed […]
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, […]