evardsson.com: stuff that w0rks » HTML5 http://www.evardsson.com/blog tweaks and hacks, php, python, music, home and ??? Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:38:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Spoke too soon? Formal Objections filed in W3C vote http://www.evardsson.com/blog/2007/05/04/spoke-too-soon-formal-objections-filed-in-w3c-vote/ http://www.evardsson.com/blog/2007/05/04/spoke-too-soon-formal-objections-filed-in-w3c-vote/#comments Fri, 04 May 2007 22:53:13 +0000 Sjan Evardsson http://www.evardsson.com/blog/2007/05/04/spoke-too-soon-formal-objections-filed-in-w3c-vote/ While the vote totals in the poll are still positive by a large majority, there have been a couple formal objections lodged which could overturn the vote. The W3C‘s process for consensus and dissent allows for formal objections to either be remedied by compromise, or in a case where that compromise is not possible a Chair may record a decision in spite of dissent in order for a group to move on. According to the same process document:

Groups should favor proposals that create the weakest objections. This is preferred over proposals that are supported by a large majority but that cause strong objections from a few people. As part of making a decision where there is dissent, the Chair is expected to be aware of which participants work for the same (or related) Member organizations and weigh their input accordingly.

While there doesn’t seem to be much interest outside the W3C and WHATWG on this issue right now (at least none that I am seeing online) I will be keeping a close eye on the developments and announcements from W3C to see how this all plays out.

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]]> http://www.evardsson.com/blog/2007/05/04/spoke-too-soon-formal-objections-filed-in-w3c-vote/feed/ 0 Looks like WHATWG’s HTML 5 is a go http://www.evardsson.com/blog/2007/05/02/looks-like-whatwgs-html-5-is-a-go/ http://www.evardsson.com/blog/2007/05/02/looks-like-whatwgs-html-5-is-a-go/#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 16:15:52 +0000 Sjan Evardsson http://www.evardsson.com/blog/2007/05/02/looks-like-whatwgs-html-5-is-a-go/ Although the poll hasn’t closed yet (it is open until May 4) 90 96 of the 115 voting members of the HTML Working Group have cast their vote, and the results are:

Shall we Adopt HTML5 as our specification text for review?

Yes: 78 84
No: 2
Concur: 7
Abstain: 3

So, even if the remaining 25 19 votes are all no, the vote is to adopt the WHATWG HTML5 (comprised of the Web Apps 1.0 and Web Forms 2.0 specifications) as a starting point for the next HTML version.

Other votes on the page include the decision to name the next HTML specification “HTML 5″ and to appoint Ian Hickson and Dave Hyatt as the specification editors. I highly recommend reading the results, in order to see the rationale given by many of the members for their vote on each of the questions, as this gives a valuable insight into where the group currently is and in what direction they are looking to move.

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Edits: updated numbers on 5/3

]]> http://www.evardsson.com/blog/2007/05/02/looks-like-whatwgs-html-5-is-a-go/feed/ 0 WHATWG Pitches HTML5 to W3C http://www.evardsson.com/blog/2007/04/12/whatwg-pitches-html5-to-w3c/ http://www.evardsson.com/blog/2007/04/12/whatwg-pitches-html5-to-w3c/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:35:41 +0000 Sjan Evardsson http://www.evardsson.com/blog/2007/04/12/whatwg-pitches-html5-to-w3c/ The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) has sent a Proposal to Adopt HTML5 to the HTML Working Group of the WorldWide Web Consortium (W3C).

HTML5, currently in working draft status is comprised of the Web Apps 1.0 and Web Forms 2.0 specifications. While the W3C XHTML2 Working Group has just been chartered in March 2007, with a goal date for completion of December 2009, the work of WHATWG on the HTML5 recommendation has been ongoing since 2004 and has support from Apple, Opera and Mozilla. In explaining the relationship between XHTML2 and HTML5 the Web Apps 1.0 draft has this to say:

1.3.4. Relationship to XHTML2

This section is non-normative.

XHTML2 [XHTML2] defines a new HTML vocabulary with better features for hyperlinks, multimedia content, annotating document edits, rich metadata, declarative interactive forms, and describing the semantics of human literary works such as poems and scientific papers.

However, it lacks elements to express the semantics of many of the non-document types of content often seen on the Web. For instance, forum sites, auction sites, search engines, online shops, and the like, do not fit the document metaphor well, and are not covered by XHTML2.

This specification aims to extend HTML so that it is also suitable in these contexts.

XHTML2 and this specification use different namespaces and therefore can both be implemented in the same XML processor.

It will be interesting to see if the WHATWG proposal is taken as the HTML Working Group, like the XHTML2 Working Group, was only chartered in March of 2007, and as such, failure to adopt the proposed HTML5 draft would mean the need to reinvent the wheel.

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