<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Wichert Akkerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wichert@wiggy.net">wichert@wiggy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div>I'ld like to see a list of pros and cons of using HTML 5 as well. I am quite worried by the lack of proper support in existing browsers. None of them implement any of the existing HTML standards properly, and I fear that switching to the still unfinished HTML5 would be a several steps too far at this point in time.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>What parts in particular do you find are not working? Browsers that don't have dedicated support for HTML5 will just treat those tags similar to div elements (given an <a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/html5-shiv/">HTML5 shiv</a> for styling to apply in IE), and most of the new form-related enhancements are additive in nature.<br>
<br>In general, HTML5 renders even on IE6, there isn't much magic here (but of course it doesn't get any of the advantages either). HTML5 is mostly about standardizing edge case behaviors and adding new abilities that will gracefully degrade in older browsers — and then a few new tags like video/audio (that are also relatively easy to make degrade) and structural elements like article/footer, etc.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Alexander Limi · <a href="http://limi.net">http://limi.net</a><br>