Comments on: You can start using HTML 5 right now!

By: Marcus Cavanaugh

Marcus Cavanaugh — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:51:02 +0000

@David: No, HTML5 does not allow you to use arbitrary elements. You can use XML Namespaces to declare different tag names, but that’s not quite what you’re thinking.

Fortunately, HTML5 will allow both XML and HTML dialects, so that should help alleviate concerns both ways.

(I know this is a delayed response, but since this site shows up near the top of Google rankings I figured it might be useful for some people.)

By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:20:48 +0000

Are you saying that in HTML 5 (or XHTML2 as DS states) we will be able to use any element name we want to? Without declaring them in a DTD?

I don’t like the idea of HTML becoming XML. People will come up with all types of elements and they wont mean anything from a semantic viewpoint. I like the sound of these new elements for article etc though.

By: David Storey

David Storey — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:53:19 +0000

This should also work in FF if you serve it as XML instead of html.

By: David Storey

David Storey — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:14:18 +0000

The monkeys element is from XHTML2, not HTML5. Beyond being able to do this, as it is basically just styling XML, you can play with a lot more in Opera. You can also use Web Forms 2, server sent events (event-source), cross document messaging, getElementsByClassName (it's HTML5 even though it is JavaScript/DOM), canvas, navigator.online (for reporting if the browser is connected to the network), Element.tabIndex, Element.blur, Element.focus, video and audio element (in a special build), contenteditible (comes from IE I think) and possibly more that I've missed.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:33:50 +0000

I’d love to start using HTML 5 but until it’s a standard and is supported by at least some browsers it is a bit pointless to me. To start playing with it now just seems like we’re teasing ourselves!