2007-04-16

Yesterday's interesting posts

1. About indent element

Use indent element to make a block emphasized, noted? What is people make an indent block for?


2. Versioning and Switches

This is a major issue of these days.

If "always standards mode"(with <!DOCTYPE html>) is set as default of IE.next:
  1. Existing pages might will be broken (because IE.next will process the pages as HTML.new )
  2. There is no needs for authers to write a opt-in switche in their new documents
If opt-in switches are required to handle pages as HTML.new in IE.next:
  1. Existing pages will not be broken.
  2. Authers have to write a Ugly switch in thier documents to process their documents as HTML.new

2007-04-13

Digest 2007-04-15

Issue about DOCTYPE used to switch browser rendering modes(e.g. Ki kiosk mode) and compatibility

The "Versioning" thread is making progress.

IE7:
<!DOCTYPE html> : Standard mode
<!DOCTYPE html5>: Standard mode
-Nope, because we look for <!DOCTYPE. We just don't compare to the root element name. A good point, though.

Firefox, Safari:
<!DOCTYPE html> : Standard mode
<!DOCTYPE html5>: Kiosk mode
-What they don't recognise is <!DOCTYPE html5>.

So "<!DOCTYPE html5>" is forward compatible for IE7, but not for Firefox and Safari. But using "<!DOCTYPE html>" to get backward compatibility(to switch to the standard mode) in the new-HTML documents takes a difficulty in handling new-HTML-specific elements.

About formal definition of HTML5

All what we have is only English prose.
Proposing <indent> vs. <blockquote>
The thread is making progress.
It seems that the point of this thread is support for HTML authoers.

Digest 2007-04-13

Topics of yesterday are:

1. What is the spec for mainly? and possibility to split into several specs.


2. Implementation issue and DOCTYPE.

Some discussions about DOCTYPE and backward compatibility.

And I found a topic about HTML WG at the Slashdot

2007-04-11

Getting started

I read a post "wg members status" from Daniel Glazman and realized that I had never posted any mail to the mailing list yet. Hmm I'm getting to be a observer.

So I start this blog to contribute the WG and to help other observers to understand what's happening in the WG (in fact, it's still hard just to follow the discussions, I think).