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QuanMar 12th 2010 4:14PM
Canvas, HTML5, inline SVG etc... clearly have no potential for changing the way we browse the web.
I like how you think the web is so small these days that a browser vendor adds a feature and all the developers flock to it and just present an old site to other browser users. We live in a bit more of a grown up web these days, you might be nostalgic but that doesn't exclude an so blatantly ignorant blog post.
(Unverified)Mar 12th 2010 4:46PM
How on earth did you mistake my words for _nostalgia_? I am many things, but nostalgic is one term I would never, ever use to describe myself.
HTML5 will obviously change how we browse (as we've already started to see with the recession of Gears) -- but did you see the timescale on the full HTML5 spec being completed? Pretty crazy...
QuanMar 12th 2010 5:00PM
I don't even see why spec completion is a consideration. Browser vendor 5 years have shown anything is that the browser vendors don't really care that much for the W3C even if some of them like standards.
UngidgetMar 15th 2010 4:08AM
"Browser vendor 5 years have shown anything is that the browser vendors don't really care that much for the W3C"
Whatever gave you that idea? The browser vendors are actively involved in the W3C. They are working on HTML5 at the W3C, as a matter of fact.
QuanMar 15th 2010 4:53AM
But that's only because HTML5 is their standard and the W3C is the only defined neutral ground. Look how many browser vendors invested in or implemented XHTML 2...