The Elements of HTML

http://w3c.github.io/elements-of-html/

by bpierre • 12 years ago

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mathias• 12 years ago

Please use http://meiert.com/en/indices/html-elements/ instead, as it’s based on the WHATWG HTML Living Standard rather than W3C’s versioned fork.

Mithaldu• 12 years ago

Two things about that:

1. What are the differences? I've no idea what the significance of the source is.

2. The one you linked is hella unreadable. OP's table is, due to the color differences, extremely easy to skim, while the one you linked has only very similar black&white x and checkmark symbols, which require closer inspection to differentiate.

Tomte• 12 years ago

The "main" development site for HTML5 is the WHATWG. That's where all the browser implementors convened when they lost faith in the W3C.

The WHATWG doesn't bother with versions, there will be no HTML6, for example. They just continually update the HTML5 spec. It's a living spec.

The W3C kind of tracks the WHATWG progress and tags certain points with version numbers (that's where the "5.1" comes from).

Although they do some development on their own, and sometimes both sides disagree and the specs diverge. At some point WHATWG removed an element that W3C retained or the other way around.

I have no idea if they still diverge. I just discard the W3C when it comes to HTML5 and follow WHATWG.

Well, practically speaking, I follow what the Mozilla Development Network documents. :-)

meowface3• 12 years ago

Is anyone out there actually using XHTML 2.0 currently?

Siecje2• 12 years ago

I actually found it interesting to see what was in HTML5.1 and not in HTML5, even though I agree the 5.1 version number is quite silly.

SteveFaulkner• 12 years ago

Note, the reason why there some features in 5.1 that are not in 5.0 is that there are some features not implemented yet, 5.0 only includes implemented features.

goblin892• 12 years ago

The page you linked to doesn't look very trustworthy because it displays third-party ads. (Just an observation.)

huskyr• 12 years ago

Another index that's a lot more usable than this one IMHO is:

http://developers.whatwg.org/section-index.html#index

dtech• 12 years ago

It serves a different purpose.

Your link does not show how HTML evolved/what tags are new, the OP link doesn't show what each element actually is.

meowface3• 12 years ago

Here's one also by WHATWG, with all the relevant changes:

http://meiert.com/en/indices/html-elements/

marcosdumay• 12 years ago

Are frames really deprecated in HTML 5.1? Why does the documentation not tell that?

SimeVidas• 12 years ago

It's on the list of obsolete, non-conforming features http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html#non-conforming-feat...

chrisBob• 12 years ago

What is the point of things like hgroup and rbc that are listed as not available in any of the versions on the chart?

Siecje2• 12 years ago

hgroup was in the unfinished HTML5 spec but was removed.

alwillis• 12 years ago

hgroup was part of the “original” HTML5 spec, but it won’t be part of HTML5 going forward as the living spec grows up a bit. I think it’s still useful: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

KevinMcAlear• 12 years ago

No blink tag documentation. I can't use this thing.

felipesabino3• 12 years ago

I believe it is because it is a non-standard tag...

franze2• 12 years ago

<center> is not HTML5? why? i love <center> & they standardised all other worst practices of the browser vendors, but this one they missed?

leephillips• 12 years ago

Probably because it's presentational, rather than "semantic". You're supposed to use CSS to do this.

dictum2• 12 years ago

If only they could retrofit <center> as a semantic tag, like they did with <small>.

meowface3• 12 years ago

Decoupling of styling and semantic markup. Simply doesn't fit in with any other tag. A simple <div style="text-align:center"></div> works the same.

goblin892• 12 years ago

The browser-tag relationship often happens to be more nuanced than just “supports” or “not supports”. I'd recommend skimming an MDN article in case of doubt. They also include browser compatibility tables for quick reference and link to W3C and WHATWG specs.

felipesabino3• 12 years ago

Is it me or the <marquee> is missing?

felipesabino3• 12 years ago

Oh, may be because is a on-standard...

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