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W3C

No, HTML5 is NOT at Last Call

It’s unfortunate that the WhatWG made a unilateral decision to go Last Call with HTML5 at WhatWG, as HTML5 is far from ready for Last Call at the W3C. Supposedly the reason it went to Last Call at the WhatWG is no bugs in the WhatWG database. Considering that there are significant bugs and issues at the W3C, […]

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Specs W3C XHTML/HTML

The HTML5 silly season

Cynthia Shelly released an alternative proposed HTML5 draft that addresses the table summary attribute. The responses to her draft have been less than edifying, and demonstrate rather succinctly most things wrong with the HTML WG. If you follow along in the thread, you’ll see Apple’s Maciej and IBM’s Sam Ruby go back and forth on protocol, […]

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Semantics

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer: RDFa and HTML5’s Microdata

Being a Beatles fan, I must admit to being intrigued about the new Beatles box set that will be available in September. I have several Beatles albums, but not all. None of the CDs I own have been re-mastered or re-mixed, including one of my favorite songs, from Abby Road: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer: Joan was quizzical; Studied pataphysical […]

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HTML5 SVG Technology

Separating Canvas out of HTML5

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 […]

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HTML5 Specs

HTML5: A story in progress

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, […]