Sun, 13/09/2009 - 19:44 — horuskol

At almost 1,000 pages, the HTML5 specification from the W3C can seem a bit daunting.

However, the reason for this extremely wordy specification is to clear up a lot of ambiguity that existed in previous specifications targeted at browser vendors and producers of related software. This is actually a good thing, since it locks down the behaviour and rules that browsers have to obey, meaning that web developers can be more sure of conformity across browsers.

But that does mean that the specification is full of sections that are just not relevant to the creators of websites.

This is why the W3C has also produced the HTML5: The Markup Language - which is all the parts of the specification that you need to create websites which meet it.

Since all the major browsers are moving towards support of HTML5, then this release of the site developer version of the specification should be widely welcomed.