David E. Ross schrieb:
The final specification for HTML 5 has not yet been published. The
current W3C specification is a working draft. "W3C encourages everyday
use starting from 'Candidate Recommendation'." HTML 5 is not yet there.
For one thing,m the speed has nothing to do with that, IE8 doesn't
support _anything_ at all from the HTML5 work. The speed comparison is
probably in our favor a lot because SeaMonkey 2.0 incorporates a number
of JavaScript speed improvements - also see
http://home.kairo.at/blog/2010-09/the_speed_of_javascript_in_seamonkey
for some numbers.
IE8 is probably somewhere near the level of SeaMonkey 1.x, which we made
large jumps after that. IE9, once it will be released, will be much
nearer to what we are shipping in 2.x versions, but Microsoft hasn't
finished that one yet.
That said, a lot of the specific features to be in the HTML5 standard
have been widely agreed between browser vendors (which are also the vast
majority of the W3C working group for HTML) and can be regarded as more
or less final, while a few other parts are still in flux. It's quite
safe to use things like the doctype, or elements like the new web form
controls, canvas, video/audio etc. in the wild right now, even though
not all details of the full HTML5 spec are set in stone yet. The parts I
just mentioned will very very likely not see any changes. If you want
more details, feel free to ask in the right W3C mailing lists but don't
discourage people from using HTML5 right now (it's surely better to even
use the not-completely-stable parts than to use Flash or Java applets
instead).
Robert Kaiser
--
Note that any statements of mine - no matter how passionate - are never
meant to be offensive but very often as food for thought or possible
arguments that we as a community needs answers to. And most of the time,
I even appreciate irony and fun! :)
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