On 1/29/11 10:23 AM, [email protected] wrote: > HTML5 doesn't exist, except in pre-BETA, does it? > > > > Ken Rudolph wrote: >> When I go to the new "Grid" ap on Salon http://www.salon.com/grid/ with >> SeaMonkey it says " SORRY! The Grid is built for HTML5-level browsers, >> including the latest from Firefox, Safari and Chrome, plus the iPad. It >> is not compatible with your browser." >> >> But other than that, the page seems to work the same way as it does with >> Chrome. Is this just a case of stupid html programmers not recognizing >> SeaMonkey's existence, or is there really a difference between >> SeaMonkey's HTML5 and FireFox's? >> >> Do we have any recourse? >> >
Until the new HTML5 logo was introduced, those working on the HTML5 specification under W3C strongly recommended against using it until the specification became more mature. Recent claims by Micro$oft that their latest IE passed various HTML5 tests were derided by W3C leaders as being so very premature as to be meaningless. I think the recommendation against using HTML5 is still a good idea. On the Web, the W3C's lastest published specification for HTML5 (13 January 2011) has a warning popup that says: "This is a work in progress! For the latest updates from the HTML WG, possibly including important bug fixes, please look at the editor's draft instead." That 13 January 2011 specification is labeled "Working Draft". After the LAST working draft comes a "last call for comments" (possibly this April), a "candidate recommendation", another "last call for comments", a "proposed recommendation", and -- after at least two browsers pass W3C tests -- a "recommendation". Any of the "last call for comments" can cause the prior milestone to be repeated, followed by another "last call for comments". Other than the first "last call for comments" -- addressing the current draft -- I cannot find a schedule for these milestones. I strongly suspect that "recommendation" will NOT be reached this year. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
