HTML5 is new...

 

What features do you like? What don't you like? Is it the future?

I like almost all of HTML5 except that header and footer tags seem a bit unnecessary and most people are quite happy using an id or class for those parts of a page.

 

However, it will take so long for browsers to upgrade to be able top process HTML5 and even longer for most of the world's computers to upgrade to newer browsers that most of the new features are dangerous to use. If you code <video>.......</video> now, the video won't show.

I think it's got a lot going for it but as 'Wickham' said above, it will (as it always does) take far to long for browsers to catch up.

I like almost all of HTML5 except that header and footer tags seem a bit unnecessary and most people are quite happy using an id or class for those parts of a page.

 

However, it will take so long for browsers to upgrade to be able top process HTML5 and even longer for most of the world's computers to upgrade to newer browsers that most of the new features are dangerous to use. If you code <video>.......</video> now, the video won't show.

 

It has nothing to do with what people are comfortable with, it has to do for semantic reasons. In and of itself, <div id="header"> holds no semantic meaning. <header> does.

 

I do agree that some tags are dangerous to use, especially the <video> tags especially since some of the browsers seem to be in a p*** fight about what video codex's to support, but some are safe to use (especially if you use a little js and css to make IE play nice). Now I wouldn't go all out and do a major site in all HTML5, but I think small production sites would be ok to use it.

 

Im currently going through a site using all HTML5 to see exactly what I can and can't get away with, and it is interesting to see how much is already supported, and what isn't by each browser, especially when it comes to forms.

I do agree that some tags are dangerous to use, especially the <video> tags especially since some of the browsers seem to be in a p*** fight about what video codex's to support, but some are safe to use (especially if you use a little js and css to make IE play nice).

 

 

Some people have javascript disabled by their IT departments and cannot enable it, so some of the new element tags will not be processed and some would disrupt a page layout. A video wouldn't show, but some tags would be ignored so the page would display but without the styles for those tags.

Thats why I said it wouldn't be smart for larger sites to do it. Like anything on the web you need to know your audience to see if it would be a viable option. Clearly a site like LG wouldn't be able to do that, but a smaller site who gains most traffic by Firefox/Safari/Chrome might be able to get away with it. And with those smaller sites, how many people are going to visit the site with IE and with JS turned off. Honestly, Im never convinced by the "might have JS turned off" because the mass majority of companies do not impose those restrictions on their computer users. Yes there are a handful, but is it enough to worry about? I don't think so personally.