Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5

foo fighter writes "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been slumbering the past several years: HTML was last updated in 1999, XHTML was last updated in 2002, and no one is taking seriously their largely incompatible work on 'next-generation' XHTML or 'modularized' XHTML. Both HTML and XHTML are in sorry need of removing deprecated items while being updated to reflect the current practices of web and browser developers and remaining compatible with legacy Recommendations. The much more open and transparent WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group), formed in 2004 to address this problem, and has been hard at work on developing a draft spec for HTML5 to update and replace legacy versions of both HTML and XHTML. The quality of this work has reached the point that Apple, Opera, and Mozilla have requested the adoption of HTML5 as the new 'W3C Recommendation' for Web development."

Comments

I started to

[caluml]

I started to code my pages in XHTML. But it's just not worth it. Use what works. :)

Re:I started to

[jd]

We need to replace the blink tag with a more general annoy tag that can have blink attributes. This will allow W3C to properly codify all the ways of being a complete pain under a single, unified system.

5???

[aicrules]

I just figured out HTML1 and I am still crying that doesn't work! :~(

Re:The More they add, the less I like

[Doctor-Optimal]

They can have my blink tag when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!

Re:The More they add, the less I like

[Chris Mattern]

They can have my blink tag when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!

That...can be arranged.

CHris Mattern

Re:The More they add, the less I like

[Bogtha]

Yes, because MS FrontPage would never output broken HTML, would it?

Re:A bit premature?

[ZachPruckowski]

Yeah, slashdot summaries can be a bit misleading at times.

Dear W3C,

[circletimessquare]

Please revive the <BLINK> tag. I thought it was as awesome as MC Hammer. In fact, just go ahead and make an <MCHAMMER> tag.

What would it do? You have to ask!?

Yours,
the early 1990s

Re:The More they add, the less I like

[Nimey]

What's a French?

Re:How will this effect IE7

[maxwell demon]

OTOH, any bets on whether IE7 would support it ... ever?

No. IE7 is already out now, and MS would be silly to give the next version the same version number as the current version.

Re:Firefox plugin

[illegalcortex]

Note to self: When making next joke about a phony plugin whose purpose is to eliminate rendering differences between IE and Firefox having rendering differences of it's own, google made-up plugin names first. Also, be less subtle. ;)

Re:The More they add, the less I like

[dhalgren]

It's what you did during Stairway to Heaven in grade 10.

Unless you're a Slashdot regular, of course.

Torben

Re:This could be the leverage needed against MS

[AthenianGadfly]

If I were a chair, I would not want to work at Microsoft...

It could be dangerous

I want a AJAX tag :p

[VGfort]

Do some web 3.0 stuff for me

<curvedcorners>Bling Bling</curvedcorners>

and maybe they will implement the </sarcasm> tag, no opener needed :p