The HTML v.5 draft was released on the 22nd and I’ve had a little bit of time to read some of the 488 pages, and there are some interesting things.
For one, there are hugely obvious sections where RSS, Video and Sound have influenced the new standard - allowing for embedding RSS directly into the HTML (ie: no widget needed) as well as new embed code for Video and Audio.
Blog influence comes in with Article and Dialog tags becoming standard inside HTML, although there are a few more than can be used as well that completely fit within the Blogging world.
So, before I get into the nitty gritty, some may wonder why the change has occurred. With the advent of so many fully-function, Web 2.0 websites, it seems that many developers, myself included, have used their own tags to show things that have become the norm. For instance, WordPress uses the “POST” class to show a post - imagine that. Even SharePoint uses “TOP” as the same indicator of content. There are several other web applications that use roughly the same DIVs for the same type of content - HTML v.5 is an attempt to standardize that. Continue reading…
