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5 Exciting Things to Look Forward to in HTML 5
- wabicat 18y agoI really like the custom tag names rather than constantly doing <div id="something">.
- saterdaies 18y agoWill the video tag work with any video format across browsers? be limited?
- shadytrees 18y agoFirefox and Opera are both backed Ogg Theora [1] [2]. WebKit (Safari and, I guess?, Chrome) looks like it has QuickTime formats with more being supported down the road [3]. (These are all pretty old articles I remember from the top of my head. I'd predict that the body of video formats will probably stabilize soon with Theora winning.) [1]: http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/05/support-for-html-video-element-in.html http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/05/support-for-html-video-... [2]: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/a-call-for-video-on-the-web-opera-vid/ http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/a-call-for-video-on-the-w... [3]: http://webkit.org/blog/140/html5-media-support/ http://webkit.org/blog/140/html5-media-support/
- scorxn 18y agoPractically speaking, I wonder how long custom tags will remain as flexible as they appear in the spec. It won't take long for search engines to decide their preferred tags, how they're weighted and how they relate. Then our tag schema will pretty much have to follow suit to rank well. It'll be like the rel naming conventions, only on a larger scale.
- windsurfer 18y ago<canvas> is already here and supported by all major browsers. Except IE, of course.
- jws 18y agoBut they are adding text support to <canvas>, and for that I celebrate. I look forward to not drawing my graph labels with the Hershey vector fonts.
- dchest 18y agocontentEditable and designMode is nothing new.