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This is it, HTML 5 hits recommendation status

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Oct 28.2014

So the idiotic, bloated halfwit garbage they have the giant pair of donkey brass to call a specification has hit “recommendation”; it is sufficiently implemented and stable for them to consider it such.

*SIGH* shame, was still holding out hope that sanity and reason might prevail and it gets killed off by a successor before it ever reached this point. I STILL have difficulty fathoming why it’s so blasted popular or what it ACTUALLY offers for improvements. To me it’s the bleeding edge of 1997 development practices and actively encouraging the “go ahead and sleaze out pages any old way” mindset.

Bah, my disgust to the point of nausea just tread into projectile vomiting.

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@Sup3rkirbyOct 28.2014 — I've gotta admit, initially I stopped any serious web development back when HTML5 was just starting to peep its head into the scene. But then I just decided there was no point in fighting the inevitable if I was going to be doing this sort of thing for a living.

I also have noticed that a lot of 'new HTML5 features' or improvements actually seem to revolve around javascript (or even CSS), rather than the markup itself, but I guess that's just bad labeling by all the sites who want to get flashy new posts out to share relatively useless tutorials and showcases?

Either way, I still find myself having to build pages for IE7/8 which just shows that regardless of what the bigwigs say about HTML specs, we're still at the mercy of the browsers (of our userbases).
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@deathshadowauthorOct 28.2014 — I also have noticed that a lot of 'new HTML5 features' or improvements actually seem to revolve around javascript (or even CSS), rather than the markup itself, but I guess that's just bad labeling by all the sites who want to get flashy new posts out to share relatively useless tutorials and showcases?[/QUOTE]
that's one of the biggest problems -- a LOT of what people call HTML 5, has jack **** to do with being a markup specification and many of them aren't even part of HTML 5. Mostly they're CSS3 and the newest ECMAScript, and *** NEWS FLASH ***, there's NOTHING stopping you from using them in 4 or X1 Strict!

Even the ones that ARE in the HTML 5 specification leave one asking "why is this in the markup?" -- like CANVAS or PROGRESS. If it only works and/or is useful through scripting, why does it even HAVE a markup element?

Others are just outright annoying in that they re-introduce old redundancies and promote vendor lock-in. AUDIO and VIDEO for example are redundant to OBJECT just like APPLET, EMBED and IMG were. There is NO reason they could not simply have implemented the new functionality on the existing tag AND still provided a plug-in mechanism. ALL these new tags have managed to do is refracture media delivery to the point you have to have three to five different encodings of the same data to deliver it, and left us at the mercy of whatever formats the browser makers happen to "feel like implementing" -- this is an improvement HOW exactly?

Of course, most people have forgotten that IMG was also supposed to be on the chopping block for the real "next HTML after 4" for being redundant to object... and so as web developers we weren't stuck on formats the browser makers happened to feel like promoting. If OBJECT had been implemented properly by Microshaft in the first place, we'd probably be able to use JPEG2000 and SVG a decade and a half ago.

I LOVE how they've managed to sell vendor lock-in as fighting vendor lock-in. That's some real high-end white-collar criminal marketing genius right there! Leave it to Apple's sour grapes over losing the media format wars and FSF nutters "fight the man with ogg kool-aid" to be the driving force behind it.
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