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New version of the HTML 5 draft.

Web Design Mauritius | 10/09/2009 | no comments

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A new version of the HTML 5 draft is currently available. It has been published yesterday (9th of September 2009) and is still in its working note form. It is interesting to read about the conception of this new version of the future web. Most of it is based on the HTML Design Principles that explain how a browser, whatever its age is supposed to behave when set in front of any kind of code.

What looks weird though is that the point of view of HTML through this document is biased. It does not look like it has been written so as to give a basis to browser manufacturers as well as web designers to build good websites on one part and good rendering tools on the other. It still proposes new angles for web designing but it sure looks like someone just went around and asked Web Designers: “People, what would you like to have in your specs?” and that’s all.

True enough that standards were more or less for browser manufacturers at some point but let’s not forget that there is still a big gap between browsers used worldwide. IE 6 is still here and being aggressive and standards are not fully understood by everybody. Today it seems like the new standards are only for Web Designers and I think that it is a huge mistake. I just hop that things will get altered until 2012.