Carl wrote:
>http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/
I have looked over the specs but I don't see anything special that
really stands out to me.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-html5/ http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/diff/ http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/How_HT...anging_the_Web
>Why are they working on HTML when CSS has been
the source of my woes?
HTML4 is basically sound and can be improved. CSS has basic
design flaws that make it unsuitable for some layouts, and a
total redo will fail due to lack of browser support. See
[
http://www.google.com/search?q=css+sucks ].
That being said, there is a method that removes manu of the woes
assiciated with CSS. Make a speciual test CSS stylesheet that
has this sort of thing in it:
html {border : 1px solid; border-color : yellow; }
head {border : 1px solid; border-color : black; }
meta {border : 1px solid; border-color : black; }
title {border : 1px solid; border-color : black; }
body {border : 1px solid; border-color : green; }
div {border : 1px solid; border-color : red; }
p {border : 1px solid; border-color : blue; }
h1 {border : 1px solid; border-color : blue; }
h2 {border : 1px solid; border-color : blue; }
h3 {border : 1px solid; border-color : blue; }
h4 {border : 1px solid; border-color : blue; }
a {border : 1px solid; border-color : silver; }
strong {border : 1px solid; border-color : yellow; }
script {border : 1px solid; border-color : red; }
noscript {border : 1px solid; border-color : red; }
span {border : 1px solid; border-color : yellow; }
img {border : 1px solid; border-color : lime; }
....
(You may wish to tweak the color choices)
By drawing borders around each element, you can see what
the effects of padding, margin etc. on various browsers.
After everything is as yiu like it, remove the borders.
>Has anyone else looked over this?
Yes. I plan on using HTML5 when it is completed. Until then I
advise using HTML 4.01 strict and avoiding XHTML.
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Guy Macon
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