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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Comment by bert on 25 January 2008:
Hmmm… what precisely are the benefits of being W3C compliant? Better indexing?
Comment by mlankton on 25 January 2008:
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.
Comment by Chia Pets on 20 February 2008:
HTML5 sounds like a lot of hype, to me. I’ll stick with my XHTML1.0 for now.