16.5.2011 23:16 said:
I've not been following this. Is HTML5 popular?
Yes, everybody and his brother talks about it. (I just finished writing
a book on it. Sorry, it will be in Finnish, but it's an easy language.)
Some people even _use_ some HTML5 constructs. Some of them are "safe" to
use already, some of them can be used with precautions that handle
non-supporting browsers, and some of them can be used with caution
(e.g., in intranets where you can expect everyone to use the newest
Firefox or the newest Chrome).
I remember that XHTML was going to take over from HTML4
Yes, there was a lot of talk about it. XHTML didn't really die, it just
became relatively uninteresting. HTML5 is really about HTML at the
document tree level, and the tree can be linearized as good old HTML or
as XHTML, as you like (and sometimes you can like XHTML, because your
HTML5 document is to be sent to some XML-aware, maybe XML-only software).
but other than
introducing the XML terminology, old HTML 4 is still chugging along.
It's just being transmogrified to HTML5.
Does it look like 5 will be a winner?
It seems that we don't really know what the future HTML will be, except
that it will be called HTML5.
Seriously, though I keep emphasizing that HTML5 is just a draft, or
drafts (WHATWG HTML5 and W3C HTML5, which are developed together but not
identical), it seems to be converging and getting implemented. But parts
thereof are still at stake