Hold off on deploying HTML5 in websites?

http://remy.tumblr.com/post/1261575750/hold-off-on-deploying-html5-in-websites

by jot • 16 years ago

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daleharvey• 16 years ago

the amount of people that do not understand that html5 is not a point release is depressing, under the same rules that disregard html5, ajax/xhr isnt ready for the big time yet.

andybak• 16 years ago

Surely it's OK to deploy anything that works acceptably for your audience. With sensible fallbacks and graceful degradation there is very little downside to using 'bleeding edge' features.

Most of html5 and related standards have been constructed with careful attention of backwards compatibility.

techiferous• 16 years ago

HTML5 is not one cohesive thing, so it's hard to make a blanket generalization about it like "it's not ready to use".

Refer to http://diveintohtml5.org/introduction.html

NathanKP• 16 years ago

The main point of the article as I read it is that HTML5 is made up of a variety of technologies, which have different levels of completeness and readiness for the general public. To say that HTML5 is not ready to be deployed therefore makes no sense.

HTML5 is just a buzz word to describe recent advances in web technology which should be used in the same manner as us web developers have used web technologies for many years: consider the target audience and provide adequate fallback mechanisms if necessary.

konad• 16 years ago

http://validator.w3.org/ has an entry for HTML5 (Experimental)

I don't know if that means the validator or HTML5!

Then BOFH's can brush everyone off with "The site is valid Nhtml, please contact your vendor regarding this issue"

naudo• 16 years ago

Thats why I stick to stable technologies and target IE6...

Seriously now, alot of the standard is fairly stable and can be used.

tszming• 16 years ago

HTML5 can't solve all the problems, e.g. support for full screen video. Browser vendors need to have their own workaround.

Hold off on deploying HTML5 in websites?

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