From the Editors: With HTML 5, it's about time
By SD Times Editorial Board
February 1, 2010 —
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For the past five years, the Internet standards community has been driving, slowly but surely, toward a significant revision of one of the core specifications used on the World Wide Web. Until now, the HTML 5 effort has been embraced by every major organization and business on the Web—except for Microsoft. Finally, though, Microsoft is allowing this effort to move forward, and we applaud that.
HTML 5 is important because it should address many of the pain points that developers (and end users) face when accessing websites with advanced features that go beyond core HTML text rendering. Compatibility issues with many browsers, especially Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, frustrate many users. HTML 5 should remove much of the ambiguity on today’s rich-content Web, especially when it comes to Cascading Style Sheets, and the requirements that many developers have to create two versions of their website code: one for IE, and one for other browsers.
The new specification also eliminates the need for many graphics plug-ins, as HTML 5 incorporates better core structures for rendering, animation and more.
Recently, Microsoft has been engaging more and more with the HTML 5 community, but one area—Scalable Vector Graphics—has been a sticking point. It’s unclear why SVG has been such a problem for Microsoft. Some speculate that it’s because Microsoft views HTML 5’s SVG capabilities as competing against Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. Microsoft denies this, but hasn’t offered a better reason for its longstanding refusal to participate in the process.
While HTML 5 could move forward without Microsoft, of course, but everyone acknowledges that Microsoft’s market clout makes that an exercise in futility.
The good news is that Microsoft has finally changed its position, and last month joined the SVG working group. We're happy that Microsoft is, at last, fully engaged in the standards process. Developers, and end users, will be spared much frustration if the next version of Internet Explorer supports HTML 5.
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