HTML 5

Another week, another WHATWG Weekly. While the change of name continues to excite the wider world — be sure to read HTML5 vs. HTML by Jeffrey Zeldman for some perspective — standards development marches on. Media Type Sniffing At the start of the week Adam Barth gave “whatwgians” a heads up on an update to [...]

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I think my summary last week worked out so here is the next. We changed the names of one of the standards we are working on and per Parkinson’s Law of Triviality this generated enormous amounts of feedback. Everything from “Love it!” to “Terrible.” Try to keep in mind that: Developers want features from browsers, [...]

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As support for WebM is ramping up, Web authors can start using it. However, since not everyone has a WebM-enabled browser, yet, using WebM on your site poses the problem of having to explain to the visitors of your site how they can view WebM. It is inefficient for everyone to have to do this [...]

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In 2009 we announced that the HTML5 specification at the WHATWG was progressing to Last Call. The plan at the time was to finish the specification this year and publish a snapshot of “HTML5″ in 2012. However, shortly after that we realised that the demand for new features in HTML remained high, and so we [...]

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Inspired by my friend Peter who writes summaries about the ongoing progress with WebKit I thought I should try writing such a summary about the WHATWG. If this works out you might see another one. Obviously a lot has been happening thus far so to not make this ridiculously hard I will restrict myself to [...]

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After over a year without proper releases, there is now a new release of the Validator.nu HTML Parser. There have been numerous changes to the HTML5 spec and, consequently, to the parser since the previous release. All users of the parser should update to the latest release in order to run a version that corresponds [...]

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