[jsr-314-open] [jsf2.next] WITHDRAWN Proposal to support new semantic HTML5 tags

[Ed Burns]

>>>>> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:08:59 -0800, Jim Driscoll <Jim.Driscoll at Sun.COM> said:

JD> For the most part, no.  The exceptions appear to be noted in the article 
JD> (but, I haven't reviewed the HTML5 spec - it ironically causes Firefox 
JD> to crash whenever I try).

JD> So instead of saying <div class="nav">, you instead say <nav>

JD> However, it turns out that there's serious problems  with using these 
JD> tags, at least according to John Resig (I attended a talk he gave on 
JD> Friday).

JD> While the HTML5 shiv referenced below will allow these tags to work in 
JD> IE in the basic case, there are still two problems:  1) they won't nest, 
JD> and 2) innerHtml won't work with these tags.

JD> So, given those problems, I withdraw the proposal.  Since these problems 
JD> occur in IE8, it looks like these tags may be as far as 5 years away 
JD> from being usable.  Tragic.

Withdrawl noted and agreed.

Ed

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