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HTML5 buzzwords in action

47 points by joao 16y ago

aaronbrethorst 16y ago
HTML 5 != -webkit-proprietary extensions. "Instead of animating standard CSS positioning properties like left, use -webkit-transform instead."
- ugh 16y ago
  Sigh. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prefix-or-posthack/ http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prefix-or-posthack/
  - aaronbrethorst 16y ago
    Interesting article. I'm not opposed to vendor prefixes by any means. Instead, I'm merely pointing out that the title is misleading. A -webkit CSS extension may at some point make it into a blessed spec, but describing it as HTML 5 in action is inaccurate.
    - ugh 16y ago
      I don’t think you can look at HTML5 through the is-in-spec/is-not-in-spec glasses. It’s just not a very useful distinction (the spec is just moving too slowly for that to be practical).
      - derefr 16y ago
        Indeed; I think the best way to define "HTML5" right now is "a large web-developer wishlist for near-future browser features." It's not a standard or anything (other than the part of it that's actually about the HyperText Markup Language v5); it's just a bunch of stuff that's getting hyped so much that all the browser makers are paying attention.
    - rimantas 16y ago
      First of all, there are also -moz-transform and -o-transform. Second, and more important: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-2d-transforms/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-2d-transforms/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-animations/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-animations/
rimantas 16y ago
Jeff Croft: But I think there’s actually a very good reason why we should, in fact, embrace the term “HTML5” as an overarching buzzword for this latest round of web standards and specifications. Our industry has proven on several occasions that we don’t get excited about new, interesting, and useful technologies and concepts until such a buzzword is in place. Source: http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2010/aug/02/term-html5/ http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2010/aug/02/term-html5/ via http://www.zeldman.com/2010/08/03/html5-fuzzies/ http://www.zeldman.com/2010/08/03/html5-fuzzies/ (there is a term HART proposed in comments, I quite like that one).

47 points by joao 16y ago

HTML 5 != -webkit-proprietary extensions. "Instead of animating standard CSS positioning properties like left, use -webkit-transform instead."

ugh 16y ago
Sigh. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prefix-or-posthack/ http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prefix-or-posthack/
- aaronbrethorst 16y ago
  Interesting article. I'm not opposed to vendor prefixes by any means. Instead, I'm merely pointing out that the title is misleading. A -webkit CSS extension may at some point make it into a blessed spec, but describing it as HTML 5 in action is inaccurate.
  - ugh 16y ago
    I don’t think you can look at HTML5 through the is-in-spec/is-not-in-spec glasses. It’s just not a very useful distinction (the spec is just moving too slowly for that to be practical).
    - derefr 16y ago
      Indeed; I think the best way to define "HTML5" right now is "a large web-developer wishlist for near-future browser features." It's not a standard or anything (other than the part of it that's actually about the HyperText Markup Language v5); it's just a bunch of stuff that's getting hyped so much that all the browser makers are paying attention.
  - rimantas 16y ago
    First of all, there are also -moz-transform and -o-transform. Second, and more important: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-2d-transforms/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-2d-transforms/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-animations/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-animations/

rimantas 16y ago

Jeff Croft: But I think there’s actually a very good reason why we should, in fact, embrace the term “HTML5” as an overarching buzzword for this latest round of web standards and specifications. Our industry has proven on several occasions that we don’t get excited about new, interesting, and useful technologies and concepts until such a buzzword is in place. Source: http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2010/aug/02/term-html5/ http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2010/aug/02/term-html5/ via http://www.zeldman.com/2010/08/03/html5-fuzzies/ http://www.zeldman.com/2010/08/03/html5-fuzzies/ (there is a term HART proposed in comments, I quite like that one).