Comments on: W3C Markup Validation Service adds experimental HTML5 support http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/11/25/w3c-markup-validation-service-adds-experimental-html5-support/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:35:20 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ETbyrne http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/11/25/w3c-markup-validation-service-adds-experimental-html5-support/comment-page-1/#comment-840505 ETbyrne Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:55:11 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3211#comment-840505 HTML5 is going to really tie up some loose ends. Looks really promising. HTML5 is going to really tie up some loose ends. Looks really promising.

]]> By: somecallmejosh http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/11/25/w3c-markup-validation-service-adds-experimental-html5-support/comment-page-1/#comment-839339 somecallmejosh Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:56:35 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3211#comment-839339 Bummer... post your bets. Who'll cross the finish line first? CSS3 or HTML5. Bummer… post your bets. Who’ll cross the finish line first? CSS3 or HTML5.

]]> By: Meitar http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/11/25/w3c-markup-validation-service-adds-experimental-html5-support/comment-page-1/#comment-839207 Meitar Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:18:53 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3211#comment-839207 @<a href="#comment-839049" rel="nofollow">somecallmejosh</a>: Oh yeah, HTML5 has actually sort of been an implementations-first standards process. The merits of that methodology over others is up for debate, but what it means for you and me is that many of the HTML5 elements are already supported by the browser vendors who have been pushing for the standard. Case in point, Apple's <code>canvas</code> element has been supported in WebKit browsers for a long time, and Firefox does a ton of the HTML5 forms stuff. Unfortunately, as is the case for new standards, not all the browsers support all of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/" rel="nofollow">the changes from HTML4.01</a> uniformly, so today we can't reliably use everything in HTML5 across every browser. But maybe one day we will. @somecallmejosh: Oh yeah, HTML5 has actually sort of been an implementations-first standards process. The merits of that methodology over others is up for debate, but what it means for you and me is that many of the HTML5 elements are already supported by the browser vendors who have been pushing for the standard. Case in point, Apple’s canvas element has been supported in WebKit browsers for a long time, and Firefox does a ton of the HTML5 forms stuff.

Unfortunately, as is the case for new standards, not all the browsers support all of the changes from HTML4.01 uniformly, so today we can’t reliably use everything in HTML5 across every browser. But maybe one day we will.

]]> By: somecallmejosh http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/11/25/w3c-markup-validation-service-adds-experimental-html5-support/comment-page-1/#comment-839049 somecallmejosh Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:30:38 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3211#comment-839049 I'm pretty excited about HTML5. Are we showing signs of support from the browsers yet? IE6? I’m pretty excited about HTML5. Are we showing signs of support from the browsers yet? IE6?

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