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Re: HTML6 Concept

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Post by debacle »

HTML will never be semantic. The whole idea should be scrapped. HTML is inextricably bound to CSS in 2014, and has become more and more about presentation and less and less about data.

Which is fine. We have JSON and XML for data. I would rather see some cohesive standards for JSON data formats, because that is the future. HTML is just the glue between CSS and Ajax requests.

Re: HTML6 Concept

#6

Post by simonsarris »

I hate to shit on people's work[1] on HN because everyone else does it but I earnestly think this will get filed in the same bin as XHTML, aka "no web developer actually cares about this so no one will write it and it will die an awkward, forgotten death."

HTML5 did some very important things. Mainly it wrestled back the web from plugins.

Hey, remember Flash?

Isn't that great! That in 2014 I can say "Remember Flash?" Flash had such an insane grip on the web and now it's nearly gone! Not nearly, you might argue, but there are extremely few serious pages left that depend on flash. We've come a huge way since 2009.

It's crazy to think back, honestly. I'm amazed at how the grip of flash has receded. I would not have guessed in 2008 that this was where we'd be. I am a happy web developer.

This just doesn't solve the same scope of problems. It might be useful to some people, just like XHTML, but it's not worth building a new buzzword paradigm over.

[1] Everyone who writes a post like this deserves to be commended. Putting your own opinions out there is hard, so kudos to the author.

Re: HTML6 Concept

#7

Post by arcatek »

I think the title (and domain name) are a bit misleading: that's not HTML6, because it doesn't appear to be endorsed by anything related to the web standards (Mozilla, W3C, etc). That's MyHTML, sure, but not really HTML6.

Funnily enough, at a first glance it looked like a real proposal, then I looked again and it appeared as a joke (I mean ... and are a bit satirical), and then I looked the repo and there's enough issues to think that it is actually real.

Re: HTML6 Concept

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Post by amvp »

I'm almost disappointed to see a post like this with no comments - because while it's often quite negative - HN comments often provide me with context and a counterpoint that's really quite useful.

My first reaction is that I quite like it. It's more semantic than dozens of nested divs and spans, and perhaps that's not as useful for machine generated code - for those of us coding html by hand.

Re: HTML6 Concept

#9

Post by dkopi »

I simply can't imagine anyone wanting to adopt this. It seems like a lot of effort was put into the concept, and there are some great suggestions, but the added bloat goes against adopting the proposed solution.

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