[jsr-314-open] [jsf2.next] WITHDRAWN Proposal to support new semantic HTML5 tags

[Jim Driscoll]

On 12/14/09 10:12 AM, Dan Allen wrote:
>
>
>     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.
>
> I'm not opposing the withdrawl, but I do want to say (on behalf of Molly
> Holzschlag) that there is a JavaScript library called HTML5 Now that is
> supposed to "upgrade" browsers to HTML 5 w/o them actually supporting
> it. I think this is the script:
> http://remysharp.com/2009/01/07/html5-enabling-script/ But there might
> be a newer one. Just FYI.

The updated version is the shiv at GoogleCode, referenced in my original 
email.

It doesn't handle nesting, or innerHTML.  Nor is it clear that it ever 
will - there's no known workaround.  I haven't tested it, but I've got 
no reason to doubt John - if there's one guy who really understands 
browser quirks, it's him.

So, the tags are effectively dead to us.

For custom written pages, sure.  But for general purpose support (like 
inclusion into the standard tag library), then no - not usable... 
(*&*(!^$ IE.

Jim