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Blogged date : 2008 May 27
Anne van Kesteren gave an XTech presentation on HTML 5 and boiled it down to this:
The Web’s language is HTML
The Web’s application language is HTML too
HTML is pretty broken
HTML5 to the rescue
Defines processing for all of HTML
Is for Web applications and documents
Is defined in as an abstract language
Can be written in both HTML (HTML5) and XML (XHTML5)
Is a multi-vendor effort
Worked on by overlapping groups: WHATWG and W3C HTML WG
HTML5 is (partially) implemented today
HTML5 can be used today
Great Community! (Wikis, tools, tests, reviewing)
, , …
Immediate mode graphics:
SQL storage, offline application cache, drag & drop, editing, …
Get involved: w3.org/html and whatwg.org.
EOP_ERR exception raised: slide 21
Also, Anne pointed out that ruby support has been added to HTML5.
If you are a Ruby hacker, don’t get excited. This is a different ruby :)
“Ruby” are short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This specification defines markup for ruby, in the form of an XHTML module.
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