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From: Laura Carlson
Date: Tue, Jan 22 2008 10:50AM
Subject: HTML5 fiist working draft
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The first working draft of HTML5 has been published at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/

"...to make comments regarding this document, please send them to
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of this document by the W3C as a W3C Working Draft does not imply that
all of the participants in the W3C HTML working group endorse the
contents of the specification..."

Public review and comments from outside the Working Group are needed,
especially in regard to accessibility features being dropped or
changed.

"Differences Between HTML5 and HTML4" has also been published at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/

The comments archive is at:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/

Best Regards,
Laura

From: Keith Parks
Date: Tue, Jan 22 2008 12:00PM
Subject: Re: HTML5 fiist working draft
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On Jan 22, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Laura Carlson wrote:

>
> "Differences Between HTML5 and HTML4" has also been published at:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/


I found it interesting under the "New Elements" section, the <dialog>
element, and how in the example it is wrapped around <dt> and <dd>
elements, in light of a recent thread about the proper structural
mark-up for a Question and Answer list.

Boy, talks about a *loose* interpretation of <dt> and <dd>. :^o

Also noted with a chuckle under "Absent Elements"...

"acronym is not included because it has created lots of confusion.
Authors are to use abbr for abbreviations."

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Tue, Jan 22 2008 12:20PM
Subject: Re: HTML5 fiist working draft
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Keith Parks wrote:

> I found it interesting under the "New Elements" section, the <dialog>
> element, and how in the example it is wrapped around <dt> and <dd>
> elements, in light of a recent thread about the proper structural
> mark-up for a Question and Answer list.
>
> Boy, talks about a *loose* interpretation of <dt> and <dd>. :^o

And this is called "backwards compatible" HTML! A browser who does not
know the <dialog> tag (including all existing browsers, of course) will
see just a a sequence of homeless <dd> and <dt> elements - syntactically
malformed tag soup, if interpreted by classic HTML rules.

> "acronym is not included because it has created lots of confusion.
> Authors are to use abbr for abbreviations."

That, too, is hostile to accessibility, since it makes authors think
they have clarified the meaning of their abbreviations.

Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/