On 25 Oct 2010, at 17:34, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
Not perfectly, perhaps, but as well as possible. I am not sure that
providing HTML 5 markup meets that goal. However, I haven't yet
done
much research about older browsers' support of HTML 5.
I think the poster meant something like: I use some of the newer CSS
features and maybe some HTML5 attributes. Older browsers will simply
ignore those and move on.
...or not. Yes, of course it's fine to use new attributes that older
browsers will ignore. However, HTML 5 differs from HTML 4 not just in
its repertoire of attributes and elements, but also *in its basic
syntax* -- HTML 5 is no longer a subset of SGML as HTML ≤4 is.
That's
the part that (potentially) breaks graceful degradation.
Uhu, completely agree. But I've noticed a lot of people are throwing
around "HTML5" these days like "Web 2.0" in the recent past. The major
difference being that HTML5 actually isn't an empty shell like Web 2.0
was, but actually has a more-or-less well defined meaning.
Anyway, back to the "HTML4 rather than XHTML", which has little to do
with HTML5 anyway. IE6 perfectly supports XHTML and its <br /> tags
(with all of the usual IE6 quirks of course), so there is no reason to
go to HTML4 if that is your concern.
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
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