First HTML 5 working draft arrives from W3C
- Writing by Rajveer
- On February 9th, 2008 at 4:42 am
The W3C released the first public working draft of the HTML 5 specification in end of this January ‘08. Group has published a draft of the HTML 5 specification as a major revision to the markup language that powers the Web. This new HTML specification, when completed, will mark the first major revision to the HTML specification since 1999.
Developers are increasingly moving towards the advanced applications on web, using techniques like AJAX to create interactive user interfaces. Many of the features added in HTML 5 are being invented to accommodate the special needs of web application developers and make the web a richer and less passive platform. HTML 5 also deprecates some anachronistic features that have been in use since the early days of the Internet.
According to the W3C, the HTML 5 effort now includes nearly 500 participants, including representatives from ACCESS, AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia and Opera.
HTML is indeed a very important standard. And we should be glad to see that the community of developers, including browser vendors, is working together to create the best possible path for the Web. To integrate the input of so many people is hard work, as is the challenge of balancing stability with innovation, pragmatism with idealism.
Significant and impressive parts of the HTML 5
- Client-side persistent storage functionality
- Embedded APIs for key/value pairs and SQL databases with JavaScript
- New APIs for better back-button handling in AJAX applications
- Better drag-and-drop support
- Offline web applications
- Support for server-sent events
At the same time HTML 5 has also dropped some well-known features. Most prominent functionality that is missing in the HTML 5 draft is support for frames, which have been considered harmful to usability and accessibility. HTML 5 also drops some formatting elements like the tt and u elements that should be handled with CSS instead of inline tags.
It’s good for people like me who is working HTML all the time. Apart from the working draft, there are other things that will still need to be done for HTML 5 to actually work.
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