Now in glorious HTML5. ⇒
26 March 2007, early morning
There is a fork in the road now; some people are going to walk towards HTML5, while others head off to XHTML2. Many people seem to think the WC3 is old and busted. It'll be interesting to see which spec takes the lead, or if both are supported by browsers.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
It shouldn’t be hard for a well-designed browswer to support both. So the open source browsers (e.g. Firefox) will support both (as there will be proponents for each who will be willing to do the work).
Opera will probably do both too because they do a decent job. Sarafi, I’m not sure. Probably eventually (if only to dis MS). Internet Explorer will probably do both only if they catch on, but they will take forever to support both and neither will be implemented correctly.
As for if people will start using either. I think it will take a really long time for large/popular/noteworthy websites to change simply because (a) they have too much content to update (b) they are worried about backward compatibility© there is no financial incentive to change.
For example, running the Amazon gateway page through W3C’s validator is embarrasing. (1319 errors for those too lazy to follow the link).
by Ryan on March 27 2007, 12:05 am #