HTML 5

Having plundered digg for more information today, I came across an interesting article on the IBM website about the new elements in HTML 5. These seem to be moving HTML to be more developer friendly, the datagrid controls seem similar to those of ASP.NET in name and possibly functionality too.

The Menu and Command elements seem useful too, although as the article points out, these were available in older versions of HTML. Hopefully some of these new interactivity elements won’t go the way of blinking text and other superfluous/useless elements in previous versions of HTML. Hopefully the W3C have learnt lessons from previous mistakes/flashes of inspiration.

Some of the semantic elements are long over due; the blog friendly nav, header,footer,article,date/time elements will make semantic markup clearer and more obvious. Video and audio are welcome but it could make it easier to have MySpace style pages which play some inane tune over and over and over… We shall see!

If you want to read the article:

IBM Developer Works HTML 5.0 Article

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