Comments on: HTML 5 Public Working Draft Released http://ajaxian.com/archives/html-5-public-working-draft-released Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: stimpy77 http://ajaxian.com/archives/html-5-public-working-draft-released/comment-page-1#comment-261120 stimpy77 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:07:55 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3240#comment-261120 erm http://microformats.org/about/ erm http://microformats.org/about/

]]> By: stimpy77 http://ajaxian.com/archives/html-5-public-working-draft-released/comment-page-1#comment-261119 stimpy77 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:06:54 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3240#comment-261119 @Bub, spiders and browsers can anyway, without those defined tags. http://microformats.org/ @Bub, spiders and browsers can anyway, without those defined tags. http://microformats.org/

]]> By: Jergon http://ajaxian.com/archives/html-5-public-working-draft-released/comment-page-1#comment-260782 Jergon Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:46:31 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3240#comment-260782 @Bub For the same reason you use and not @Bub For the same reason you use and not

]]> By: Jerome Lapointe http://ajaxian.com/archives/html-5-public-working-draft-released/comment-page-1#comment-260780 Jerome Lapointe Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:41:34 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3240#comment-260780 I like the more "purposeful" elements and heightened possibilities for expressing the proper semantic of a document... But to me this is more like a draft for a future XHTML standard than something I'd consider using now. I like the more “purposeful” elements and heightened possibilities for expressing the proper semantic of a document…

But to me this is more like a draft for a future XHTML standard than something I’d consider using now.

]]> By: Bub http://ajaxian.com/archives/html-5-public-working-draft-released/comment-page-1#comment-260775 Bub Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:32:33 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3240#comment-260775 Eesh my tags were eaten. I said why use <article> instead of <div class="article"> ... Eesh my tags were eaten. I said why use <article> instead of <div class="article"> …

]]> By: Bub http://ajaxian.com/archives/html-5-public-working-draft-released/comment-page-1#comment-260774 Bub Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:31:19 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3240#comment-260774 Incredible- the W3C is finally waking up to the fact that the web no longer a collection of hyperlinked word processing documents. They are finally starting to create elements like menu, video, and datagrid. Unfortunately, by the time HTML 5 is widely supported it will be 20 years past due. And likely obsolete.. again! Why use instead of ? Because a spider or browser can read a standardized set of tags, interpret the page content, and do something useful with it. Incredible- the W3C is finally waking up to the fact that the web no longer a collection of hyperlinked word processing documents. They are finally starting to create elements like menu, video, and datagrid. Unfortunately, by the time HTML 5 is widely supported it will be 20 years past due. And likely obsolete.. again!

Why use instead of ? Because a spider or browser can read a standardized set of tags, interpret the page content, and do something useful with it.

]]> By: Trevor http://ajaxian.com/archives/html-5-public-working-draft-released/comment-page-1#comment-260773 Trevor Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:26:11 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3240#comment-260773 'I wonder what the advantages are to specifically declaring an element as an “aside” or an “article”' To me, the biggest advantage is for parsing of multiple-article documents (for article) and for parsing any document with tangential content (for aside) where you might opt to leave it out/make its visibility optional or contextual in an application that aggregates data like that. Because multiple articles on a document are more easily identified with article than with div.article. * * * 'using my address book would be awesome, allowing any kind of script control of said address book would be bogus. I can’t imagine JS being able to access anything in the address book, that’s suicide.' I'd imagine this would be best implemented at the OS-software level, not JS-accessible at all. ‘I wonder what the advantages are to specifically declaring an element as an “aside” or an “article”’

To me, the biggest advantage is for parsing of multiple-article documents (for article) and for parsing any document with tangential content (for aside) where you might opt to leave it out/make its visibility optional or contextual in an application that aggregates data like that.

Because multiple articles on a document are more easily identified with article than with div.article.

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‘using my address book would be awesome, allowing any kind of script control of said address book would be bogus. I can’t imagine JS being able to access anything in the address book, that’s suicide.’

I’d imagine this would be best implemented at the OS-software level, not JS-accessible at all.

]]> By: Charles http://ajaxian.com/archives/html-5-public-working-draft-released/comment-page-1#comment-260772 Charles Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:01:37 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3240#comment-260772 using my address book would be awesome, allowing any kind of script control of said address book would be bogus. I can't imagine JS being able to access anything in the address book, that's suicide. using my address book would be awesome, allowing any kind of script control of said address book would be bogus. I can’t imagine JS being able to access anything in the address book, that’s suicide.

]]> By: Jigs http://ajaxian.com/archives/html-5-public-working-draft-released/comment-page-1#comment-260763 Jigs Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:57:11 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3240#comment-260763 I wonder what the advantages are to specifically declaring an element as an "aside" or an "article"... I do like the new input types and global attributes contenteditable, and finally an a tag without a href is a placeholder. I wonder what the advantages are to specifically declaring an element as an “aside” or an “article”… I do like the new input types and global attributes contenteditable, and finally an a tag without a href is a placeholder.

]]> By: Gordon http://ajaxian.com/archives/html-5-public-working-draft-released/comment-page-1#comment-260759 Gordon Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:24:14 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3240#comment-260759 apart from still being sceptic about html5, why does "using my address book to pick through" ring an alarm bell in my head? apart from still being sceptic about html5, why does “using my address book to pick through” ring an alarm bell in my head?

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