Anne van Kesteren

XTech 2007: 5 minutes on HTML5

Encouraged by Håkon and Michael(tm) I took my talk on HTML5 near the end of the lightning talk session at XTech 2007 and ripped out all the boring stuff and gave a five minute presentation: Evolving the Web: HTML5 (XTech edition). The actual idea was doing twenty slides of which each takes twenty seconds. I think I had more slides, but probably sticked within the time limit. Preparing it was all kind of adhoc, but doing something like this is highly recommended.

By the way, I think the latest e-mail from Ian Hickson on complex tables and the one from Maciej clearly shows that we are very much interested in accessibility. I think the WHATWG has developed a different kind of approach to these kind of issues over the years from other people, which may led people to think we don’t give a shit about it or something.

Comments

  1. For informtation, your XHTML5 file doesn't validate. :p See here for more details... Apparently, putting lang="en" in the top html tag is forbidden. But very interesting talk, by the way. :)

    Posted by Le Sage at

  2. I expect that the specification and conformance checker will be updated in due course.

    Posted by Anne van Kesteren at

  3. Or maybe you should have used xml:lang instead (since you're doing XHTML)... (see The lang (HTML only) and xml:lang (XML only) attributes)

    Posted by Le Sage at

  4. Yes, I know what the specification currently suggests.

    Posted by Anne van Kesteren at

  5. So you don't agree with the current specification which you expect to change... Why? Do you think it's a bad idea to keep lang for HTML & xml:lang for XML?

    Posted by Le Sage at

  6. Yeah.

    Posted by Anne van Kesteren at