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

[Jim Driscoll]

HTML5 has a number of new semantically meaningful tags.

See here for a painless introduction:
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/why-html5-is-here-today-and-not-2022-654828

Block tags include:

article
aside
footer
header
nav
section

Inline tags include:

details
figure
mark
time

Then, there's the canvas, audio and video tags.

We can actually support many of these tags with only a minor change in 
to the panelGroup tag.

In addition to the currently allowed "inline" and "block", I would add 
the following:

span
div
article
aside
footer
header
nav
section
figure
mark

details and time deserve their own tags, I think, as do canvas, video 
and audio, and are not part of this proposal.

We may wish to consider deprecating inline and block.  We've never 
deprecated attribute values before, but hey, first time for everything.

Note that for backward compatibility with particularly lame (IE) 
browsers, a shiv needs to be included in the page, as found here:

http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/

Whether this would be included automatically, should, I think, be 
implementation specific.

Please comment on this proposal, and I'll add it to the spec issue 
tracker after we have consensus.

Jim

P.S.  Molly's HTML 5 talk at Rich Web was a good one - can you tell?