W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft Of HTML 5


Yesterday the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) published the first public working draft for the next revision of the HTML standard, HTML 5.

HTML 5 is backwards compatible with HTML 4 and XHTML 1, but will no longer support some of the SGML elements of HTML 4. In addition to HTML syntax, HTML 5 will support XML syntax. The changes are numerous, but of particular interest are some of the attributes that have been eliminated altogether. Particularly affected will be those that are using nested tables in their design.

The first public working draft for HTML 4 was announced on July 8, 1997, making yesterday’s announcement the first move toward a major revision change in almost 11 years. HTML 5 is still down the road a bit, but using strict HTML and XHTML markup now will help you make an easier transition when the HTML 5 standard is final.

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Michael was a bass player in a hardcore punk band in the 80's and spent the 90's building and riding custom Harleys. As strange a combination as it may seem, Mike also has some coder and sysadmin in his history as well. At 42 Mike's now a husband and dad, and works as a Corrections Officer in a maximum security lockdown unit by day, and is admin at AV Enthusiast and contributor to Connected Internet when time allows. Mike is also passionate about food and travel.

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  1. #1

    Hmmm… what precisely are the benefits of being W3C compliant? Better indexing?

  2. #2

    Your website will work for all your users. You get one chance to make a first impression. If your broken site doesn’t work properly in Surfer X’s web browser, you lost them.

  3. #3

    HTML5 sounds like a lot of hype, to me. I’ll stick with my XHTML1.0 for now.

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