RE: [WSG] HTML5 v. HTML 4.x

2011-01-25 Thread Steve Green
You can use it, but will anyone benefit from it? Assistive technologies don't support much, if any, of the new semantics. I don't know if search engines and other users of programmatic access to websites are currently able to make use of HTML5 markup, but I have not seen anything to indicate

Re: [WSG] HTML5 v. HTML 4.x

2011-01-25 Thread David Dorward
On 25 Jan 2011, at 08:34, Steve Green wrote: You can use it, but will anyone benefit from it? Assistive technologies don't support much, if any, of the new semantics. I don't know if search engines and other users of programmatic access to websites are currently able to make use of HTML5

RE: [WSG] HTML5 v. HTML 4.x

2011-01-25 Thread Steve Green
True, but the vast majority of the websites we work on have a life of less than 12 months, often much less - rebuilding annually or more often is the norm. My inclination is to wait and see what level of AT support develops before putting significant effort into using HTML5. Of course it's

Re: [WSG] HTML5 v. HTML 4.x

2011-01-25 Thread Ворон
You can use it, but will anyone benefit from it? Assistive technologies don't support much, if any, of the new semantics. I don't know if search engines and other users of programmatic access to websites are currently able to make use of HTML5 markup, but I have not seen anything to

Re: [WSG] HTML5 v. HTML 4.x

2011-01-25 Thread tee
On Jan 25, 2011, at 1:52 AM, David Dorward wrote: On 25 Jan 2011, at 08:34, Steve Green wrote: You can use it, but will anyone benefit from it? Assistive technologies don't support much, if any, of the new semantics. I don't know if search engines and other users of programmatic

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2011-01-25 Thread Laura Skelley
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RE: [WSG] HTML5 v. HTML 4.x

2011-01-25 Thread Thierry Koblentz
You can use it, but will anyone benefit from it? Assistive technologies don't support much, if any, of the new semantics. I don't know if search engines and other users of programmatic access to websites are currently able to make use of HTML5 markup, but I have not seen anything to indicate that