HTML 5

[Steve Comstock]

Man, has this got a long way to go.

DOCTYPE - required but "mostly useless"?
What about for XHMTL? Do I need a DOCTYPE?

Where's all the definitive attributes for all the elements?

What elements, tags, attributes, values have case sensitivty?
Where does XHTML 5 differ from HTML 5 on this?

It looks like you are intending to include XHTML 5 in the
HTML 5 recommendation, but there are lots of areas that need
more careful and complete descriptions, especially in
pointing out where XHTML 5 differs from HTML 5.


I'm not so sure about this path you're on,



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[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Steve Comstock wrote:
>
> DOCTYPE - required but "mostly useless"?

More or less, yes. It's only purpose in text/html now is to avoid
triggering quirks mode in browsers.


> What about for XHMTL? Do I need a DOCTYPE?

This is covered in the section on XHTML:

   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#writing-xhtml-documents


> Where's all the definitive attributes for all the elements?

The plan is to have a summary table here:

   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#index

I'll probably fill that in in a few weeks.


> What elements, tags, attributes, values have case sensitivty?

This is a very complicated question with an answer that is spread
throughout the specification.


> Where does XHTML 5 differ from HTML 5 on this?

There are very few differences, but where they exist they are covered in
the relevant parts of the spec, e.g. the syntax differences are covered in
the syntax sections, the DOM differences are covered in the DOM section,
and so on.


> It looks like you are intending to include XHTML 5 in the HTML 5
> recommendation, but there are lots of areas that need more careful and
> complete descriptions, especially in pointing out where XHTML 5 differs
> from HTML 5.

As far as I can tell, these are all well-defined, they're just not
summarised anywhere in the spec. However, I'm not sure such a summary
would really be that useful other than as an introduction, and for that
documents such as Mike's draft will be more helpful:

   http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/

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