HTML5: is this the improvement?
I hope they are joking. Really. I have seen some articles on HTML5 and I can feel the sickness coming up!
When reading the “differences” between version 4 and 5 I feel like we are going to lose a lot of time.
There is no “semantic“, there is nothing that would make the useless union between contents and layout being split.
Why are we going to have something old with a new shiny dress on?
A lot of specifications are still wide open, but if there is all this interest in something new, why just a new dress with few changes?
Some months ago (years?) I wrote a post in which I explained why I thought that HTML should have been dead, but all those thoughts will still be valid for the new, shiny, improved HTML5. I do NOT think we need a new HTML. I do NOT think we need to do a find/replace of some <div> with <articles>. I think we should have needed something new, completely new. Give me a channel for the information, one for the layout. Let me use flexible languages like XML and let the web become more flexible creating something different from AJAX and JavaScript.
How many times will we need someone to update something that should be dismissed?
Tags: HTML5, HTML, semantic, layer, information
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