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.'"

Comments

Err, seriously?

[beavis88]

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He had me going until this little gem. Sometimes it takes me a little while to spot a joke, sorry.

-1, idiot poster without enough coffee

[beavis88]

Sigh. Preview. Preview. PREVIEW! Sorry :(

I'm a big fan of HTML, but

[Boomer_Zz]

it started going downhill when they added POST and GET (yes, that long ago).

"Something else" should have been done for dynamic content.

Now we have all these huge workarounds to make a website like an application.

Re:"Kinder Gentler," What the Hell Is That?

[AKAImBatman]

But, you know, it's always nice to karma-whore by ripping IE. Sure, IE development may make extra work for you -- but then again, you're being paid for that work. Why not be happy that "that cowboy Internet Explorer" helped you find gainful employment?

I don't know about you, but I get paid to deliver technological solutions to my employer. Problems caused by poor implementations like IE cost my project time, can cause it to go overbudget, and reduce the effectiveness of my team and my employer's dollar. In extreme cases it can cause the project to fail, which will reflect badly on myself and my team.

There are more than enough useful jobs in the world without a monopoly creating jobs by abusing it power.

Re:I must be new here

[Turn-X Alphonse]

Arrogant aren't we?

I can't use HTML beyond linking images and text, because I really don't enjoy coding of any sort, it just doesn't work for how I process the world, I can't see all this text and picture how it works no matter how hard I try to do so, my brain just doesn't function that way.

Does it mean I'm some stupid subhuman or does it just mean you're being the stereo typical geek who thinks he's the greatest person on Earth because he knows the latest coding language? I've read a little of your journal here at Slashdot and some of your site, and honestly I think you need to try growing up a little more and being more careful with your view of other people. Just because I can't do HTML doesn't mean I'm some unpalatable idiot.