John’s HTML5 article in A List Apart
There’s an article by me (John) in today’s A List Apart, on the direction that HTML5 is taking in regards to semantics. I have long thought the approach HTML5 takes to extended the semantics of HTML was problematic in several ways, being not backwards compatible with at the very least IE6, and not extensible, and so essentially not solving the problem that it sets out to solve at all.
There’s some very detailed and thoughtful comments already after the article. So if you are interested in the issues of HTML5 and semantics, please take the time to have a look, and possible add to the conversation.
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