Lars Hansen wrote:
Hello,
Most of what you can find in HTML is there for some reason; and what
has no reason to be is being removed
The worst thing of the HTML5 process is that there is a lot of people
involved, so there are a lot of clashing interests. And the best thing
of the HTML5 process is that there is a lot of people involved, so
it's really difficult to overlook some need that the language should
address.
This is good to hear (not that I thought elsewise), it sounds like a
worthily path. I am relieved.
I was using a custom DTD for awhile because I wanted an attribute called
"spider" that I could assign to a node to tell my customized search
engine whether it could index the node or node.
Then I found out that with html5 I could use data-spider and it would
validate w/o needing a custom DTD. Additionally, html5 supported a few
other attributes I was using (IE autocomplete etc.).
There's a lot about html5 that makes a lot of sense and makes it easier
to do what we want to do and still validate, I especially like the
data-whatever attribute, that can be very useful for putting in hooks
for other uses.
I don't agree with everything html5, I think defining that a WYSIWYG
editor was used when one was used is un-necessary, I see no need for the
embed tag when object is there and I wish there was a standard way to
add style to the html5 media control bar (IE specify a height, whether
it autohides or not, whether it covers video or sits below it - all
stuff I can configure with, say, flowplayer) but can't make everyone
happy about everything and html5 in general seems to be very well
thought out.
From my perspective anyway.
