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It's super strange that this page itself is HTML5. Doesn't W3C have a policy of only publishing documents using standards already in the "Recommendation" stage?
by TheCoreh 16y ago
It's super strange that this page itself is HTML5. Doesn't W3C have a policy of only publishing documents using standards already in the "Recommendation" stage?
- Udo 16y agoWhat irks me more is that they made another one of those one-page scroll-till-your-eyes-bleed sites to show the logo off. I don't know where this new "trend" is coming from, but I find it really tiresome already.
- mbrubeck 16y agoI couldn't find anything about this policy, but it does seem to be a common practice. Even the HTML5 spec is almost-valid HTML 4.01. However, I did find other exceptions. For example, the CSS3 Media Queries spec uses the @bottom-right and @bottom-left page selectors, which are introduced by the CSS3 Paged Media module (Working Draft): http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/default.css http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/default.css
- alanh 16y agoKeep in mind that HTML5, the language, was designed to be compatible with existing browsers, already; a core part of the effort is to completely standardize all the edge case behavior, etc., related to simply parsing HTML. So there’s no real risk there. See also: Progressive enhancement.