What’s with HTML5 ?

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Jan 21

Tag: web development — vish @ 2:27 pm

Work on HTML5 is still going ( joint effort by W3C and WHATWG ), but there’s a lot of buzz around about it.

Again googled and saw many articles on it, so no point writing about same again. I didn’t find wiki enough informative.. but liked these two posts on phpGuru and aListApart.

The idea of having a async attribute is cool, which means script can be executed asynchronously and won’t block loading rest of the page. Also something new will be tags like video, auido & canvas.. and a few interactive elements including menu and datagrid.

There’s a list of elements which will be dropped including frame, font, center, applet etc , make sure you don’t use them now.

I heard a lot about support of drag and drop API in HTML5, seems like its started with IE + safari and now firefox is also supporting it. A post by Neil on how to use it and more info on developer docs.