HTML5 Falls Short

05 Aug 10

Posted by Ian Ebden

Whilst broadly welcoming HTML5—particularly some of the nice new form tags and attributes—I’m still trying to get comfortable with some aspects of it. As builders of the web we’re all striving for solid semantics right?

Well, what helps is a set of black and white rules, whereas too many new HTML5 tags are open to personal interpretation. When is a section not a ‘section’? When are ‘details’ not actually details? And so on. Maybe I need to get out more, but these are the things I find myself dwelling on more now than I ever did with HTML4. It’s progress of sorts, but I can’t help feeling the rules could be more rigid.

What do you think?

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