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Is It Time for a 'Kinder, Gentler HTML'?

Posted by Zonk on from the because-the-current-one-is-pointy dept.

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.'"

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  1. Add more turds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And replace all HTML with flash and ActiveX!!!!!! I like

  2. Who cares? by Liquidrage · · Score: -1, Troll

    HTML 3 4 5 whatever.

    We do a site up in proper CSS and it breaks in many of the browsers people are using. Every new laptop with IE scales images wrong if they're set to 120 DPI thanks to Redmon, totally breaking CSS pages without goofy workarounds. And little quirks between rendering in Opera and FF make our web person lose sleep at night.

    My point is I've never really cared what the WC3 does. I care what IE, FF, Opera and a few others do. Their standards are half ignored - half adopted, years later. It's only been in the last few years we can finally ditch the IE/Netscape 4 lowest common denominator. They're talking about HTML 5, and I don't even see HTML 3 done right. They move forward without adoption and thus make what they say mostly irrelevant to me.

  3. He has some good ideas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    While we're at it, we need to start switching the internet from TCP/IP to IPX-SPX, likeit should have been from the get-go, and you freaking know it.

  4. inventor of JSON? by xshader · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow. We have another Al Gore here... Someone actually is taking credit for "inventing" JSON? So the useage of eval() on a retrieved javascript object suddenly needs to have an inventor?

  5. Re:I must be new here by Iron+Condor · · Score: 0, Troll

    [...]Does it mean I'm some stupid subhuman [...].

    Yes.

    You're welcome.

    Wait - was that intended to be some kind of rhetorical question? I can't always tell on the intarwebs. Clearly HTML needs a "rhetorical"-tag...

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