Comments on: HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2

By: The One True b!X

The One True b!X — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s my question: When will we be able to put, say, id=”foo” in the closing tag in addition to the opening tag, so that when we’re looking, say, at a mess of closing div tags (visibly-nested or otherwise), we can tell which is which?

By: greymullet

greymullet — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

When will we be able to put, say, id=”foo” in the closing tag in addition to the opening tag, so that when we’re looking, say, at a mess of closing div tags (visibly-nested or otherwise), we can tell which is which?

You could just label them all with comments. I wish I’d thought of that sooner actually, now I’ll have to go through my new site design putting them in.

I admit that it’s messy, but, space-wise, given that you’d be adding in all of those extra classes and ids, it probably doesn’t take up all that much more room.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

looking at the image example, Are you able to add a src attrubite to almost any tag? And I assume that the containing text is sort of like the alt attrubite on the img tag?

By: Adam Thody

Adam Thody — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“When will we be able to put, say, id=”foo” in the closing tag in addition to the opening tag, so that when we’re looking, say, at a mess of closing div tags (visibly-nested or otherwise), we can tell which is which?”

I’ve always thought this should be a feature of an editing app – hover over a closing tag and see the id of the opening tag.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aren’t some of the features in the proposed HTML 5 spec already in WebKit/Safari (like Canvas and WYSIWYG editable content)?

By: Vinnie

Vinnie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why lose the image tags! an image is an image this part doesnt make any real sense to me.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a method commonly used to solve this problem cause by “a mess of closing div tags”. We call it “indentation.”

Also, some editors (I use jEdit) highlight the matching tag that cursor in. Another feature that helps with this is called “folding”. If you are not familiar with this, I highly suggest you download jedit now (http://jedit.sf.net).

Yes, some features are already implemented in Safari, like the

They are losing the tag in favor of the tag (which already supports images).

BTW, this comment system sucks.

By: HeroreV

HeroreV — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The img tag is still present in XHTML 2.0. See for yourself at http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527/xhtml2.html#s_imagemodule

By: geedubb

geedubb — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nice article. I especially like the look of canvas and datagrid!

Let’s hope Microsoft can develop a browser that can actually render it properly :P

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I want to add a src tag, is that alowed in this format?
Anna.