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Is It Time for a 'Kinder, Gentler HTML'?
jg21 writes "Via the Web 2.0 Journal, a worthy link to Yahoo! Architect and JSON inventor Douglas Crockford's latest ideas to fix HTML. He's categorically not a fan of HTML 5, which is still just an Editor's Draft and not endorsed by W3C yet. Crock puts forward ten ideas that in his view would provide extensibility without complexity, adding that the simplification of HTML he is proposing would reduce the cost of training of web developers and incorporates the best practices of AJAX development. From the article: 'The problems with HTML will not be solved by making it bigger and more complicated. I think instead we should generalize what it does well, while excising features that are problematic. HTML can be made into a general application delivery format without disrupting its original role as a document format.'"
HTML 5 is strict in the formulation of HTML entities. In the past, some browsers have been too forgiving of malformed entities, exposing users to security exploits. Browsers should not perform heroics to try to make bad content displayable. Such heroics result in security vulnerabilities.
This will clearly have a negative effect on society. When the script kiddies can't "haxxor" anymore, the only alternative is DRUGS! AND DRUGS ARE EVIL!! CRIME WILL SKYROCKET!
I got a catholic block.
WTF!
Kinder and gentler? Jesus, you kids today! We need an HTML that stinks like mace, has sharp barbs all over it, smokes, drinks, hires hookers, opens bottle caps with its teeth and beats the hell out of innocent policemen and then fries them with their own tasers.
-mcgrew
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
No way! Those are aerodynamic and make the html travel faster through the pipes!!
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