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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Dec 16, 2014 11:01AM

hi Yucca,

Always appreciate you input on any subject
I can always rely upon you for nitpicking and hair splitting ;-)

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;

On 16 December 2014 at 17:21, Jukka K. Korpela < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 2014-12-16, 16:47, Steve Faulkner wrote:
>
> HTML 4 was set in stone in 1999,
>>
>
> Technically in 1997, as HTML 4.0 Recommendation. The HTML 4.01
> specification, really a minor update, was approved in 1999.
>
> the vast majority of the author guidance
>> and information about how browsers implement HTML features is outdated.
>>
>
> I think you misspelled "some of". (Mostly parts that people didn't read,
> or didn't understand.)
>
> HTML5 is a super-set of HTML4,
>>
>
> No, it is not.
>
> most, but not all HTML 4 elements and
>> attributes are conforming in HTML5.
>>
>
> I think you misspelled "some". We could say that most, but far from all,
> HTML 4.01 Strict elements and attributes are conforming in HTML5. HTML 4
> contains a large number of constructs that are declared as "deprecated",
> and most, but not all, of them are declared as "obsolete" in HTML5. In
> addition, HTML5 obsoletes some constructs that were not deprecated in HTML
> 4 and also changes the definitions of meanings of elements.
>
> some documents which may be useful
>>
>> HTML5 Differences from HTML4 - http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/
>>
>
> It shows some, and probably most, of the differences, which are quite a
> few. It (probably intentionally) avoids describing some tricky parts, like
> "what happened to <em>?" and "what is <p>, really?" I don't think such
> issues are relevant to accessibility, but they are relevant if you claim
> that HTML5 is a superset of HTML 4.
>
> Yucca
>
>
> > > >