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W3C Says Don't Use HTML5 Yet
GMGruman writes "InfoWorld's Paul Krill reports that the W3C, the standards body behind the Web standards, is urging Web developers not to use the draft HTML5 standards on their websites. This flies in the face of HTML5 support and encouragement, especially for mobile devices, by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others. The W3C says developers should avoid the draft HTML5 spec (the final version is not due for several years) because of interoperability issues across browsers."
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This is crazy - the only good reason I can think of that the W3C would say to wait is if Adobe paid somebody off to say that. There's a NEED immediately for cross-platform media that HTML5 provides today. The only other solution to this immediate need is to use Adobe Flash, and it's already a complete fail in the mobile space (including Android, which is absolutely horrible at running Flash content that's not specifically designed for use on mobile devices). They need to accelerate the finalization of the media aspects of HTML5 immediately, and call everything else HTML5.1 or HTML6, then let THAT come out in 3 years. To wait until 3 MORE iPad and iPhone hardware releases have been shipped, not to mention who knows how many Android devices, not to mention Windows Phone 7 (well, ok, we can probably safely not mention Windows Phone 7 since it has Silverlight as its focus) there's just not 3 years to wait, guys.
And he's French.
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Excellent. You start trying to make me look bad because you lack an argument, reverse the argument, and continue with another ad hominem. Meh. Here's mine: Your excellent argument was to call an extremely experienced web developer an inexperienced child. So you are a complete idiot with no class whatsoever and you sound like a baby. I wish you good luck as a target for the publishing business for idiots. (These lame "books" are only written because lame idiots buy them, little boy, a well-known industry "secret")