html 5?
Jul 22, 2007
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I've heard the buzz recently. The w3c has made preliminary announcements that the move from html 4.01 to html 5.0 is being laid out (at least on paper). In a nutshell - xhtml years ago was a great move but basically eliminated much of the basic html because css allowed the webmaster to more easily control page elements whether in the page or now more common - from an external stylesheet.
What does this mean for you and me? I'm not really sure yet, but usually when a new standard is implemented all old standard compliant features do not deprecate, but rather become backwards compatible. In simple English - it should all be ok. The only fear I personally have as a web designer is having to deal with browsers that are not standard compliant. You know like IE (yea they say it's compliant now with 7) - but there are plenty of folks that didn't upgrade for fear of the worst. Also much of the world has finally moved over to the more clean, feature rich and secure Firefox - which usually (from an end user persepective) shows the site as it's intended.
I'm not worried from programming or coding perspective - just worried that for whatever reason - some of our old code in previously built sides may need some re-engineering. I'll be following this closely.
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