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If we could al stop using HTML5 when we mean HTML+JS+CSS. Let's just use HTML.
by laacz 12y ago
If we could al stop using HTML5 when we mean HTML+JS+CSS. Let's just use HTML.
- moron4hire 12y agoThat's... that's what HTML5 means. It's not just "HTML", it includes all of the DOM and APIs that you use through JavaScript to make any of it mean anything. That the <audio> element is reskinnable with CSS in this way is part of the HTML5 standard. And it's rather much splitting hairs. HTML isn't very useful without CSS, CSS isn't useful at all without HTML, and JS is the only choice of languages for interactivity in HTML. "Can we please stop using 'car' to mean 'car'+'engine'+'tires'".
- laacz 12y agoOr rather we could stop saying "car5" meaning just "car". Oh, wait.. :)
- moron4hire 12y agoNo, because HTML4 really is a completely different beast. The syntax is 99% the same, the available elements are backwards compatible (though the recommended usage is almost completely different) and HTML4 did not include anything about DOM or APIs.
- laacz 12y agoI don't believe that when saying HTML we mean HTML4...