Discuss: A Preview of HTML 5

by Lachlan Hunt

121 Why go Backwards? Makes NO SENSE!!

I am not sure I can see the purpose of HTML 5 and changing from divs to headers, nav, etc. I like that the div is generic because of nesting multiple divs. For instance, at times I make a header with 3 <div>s. 1 main div, 2 nested divs, one floated L and R. Can you do all this nesting with HTML 5? Theres more complex layouts then just those basic areas mentioned. how can 5 do that? And what is wrong with XHTML and CSS??? I like CSS and the things I can do with it.

I think HTML 5 is a step backwards. Definitely not a good thing. Just a cryin shame.

posted at 06:58 pm on January 16, 2009 by Kelly Lucas

122 Something to Believe In

I don’t think the HTML5 specification will do anything to progress the Web and more to the point, it will most likely become a lost chapter in web history.

It attempts to further dictate how to markup a document to a Web browser – which in the end is just a program that draws things on a screen to present to the user. Oh, and it has a URL box at the top that allows you to warp to other presentations.

Let’s be honest, HTML was only a solution to marking-up plain text, and it WASN’T great at that either.

As a language, HTML gave the computing world:
1) the ANCHOR tag.
2) JavaScript (Because people quickly realized how dull HTML was)

A better solution:
How about a DirectX mode (Or OpenGL mode?) Or XAML or SVG mode? I mention these just for the out-of-box thinking, not that I want to write up a text document in DirectX.

But that’s why people have been excited about Flex and Silverlight – because it’s write-once, standard across all platforms in presentation.

Christ, we already have 100’s of existing languages that can do this, we just need to say YES this is the new language of the web – and then add some simple context markup to it.

posted at 01:27 am on January 19, 2009 by Karl Beyer

123 Agree with #19

This certainly is an interesting debate, but I think the comment made by Niels Matthijs at #19 and the author’s comments at #11 helped me to get off the fence, and to embrace the new version of the language. Thanks!

- Rod Homor

posted at 03:59 pm on March 18, 2010 by rod homor