HTML 5 - are you
mything the point? Bruce Lawson, Opera

Evil browser vendors dominate

Hello tag soup, goodbye XML
5434298386770700

Kills Flash/ Liverslight/ JS

It will break the intertubes

It hates accessibility

Can't use it until [insert
date]

Gimme some TRUTH!!!!!!! You can
use some structural elements now (kind of) header, footer nav, aside, figure time, details, mark

Before

After

HTML 5 - <canvas> Dynamic
graphics using scripting (usually JavaScript) First implemented by Apple, now in most browsers Accessibility!

HTML 5 - forms Do
what people really need to do without scripting, so ... easier to write controls look the same across web sites less to download built-in validation

Video (currently) <object width="425" height="344">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LtfQg4KkR88&hl=en &fs=1"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LtfQg4KkR88&hl=en&f s=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed> </object>

Video (future) <video src="video.ogv" controls
autoplay poster="poster.jpg" width="320" height="240"> <a href="video.ogv">Download movie</a> </video> Let's check some out!

Video politics Accessibility Most Video
is not free to make or use Ogg/Theora is (in Opera/Firefox) Video politics http://tr.im/gBHT OMS video http://tr.im/gBHQ

Ta very much, mwah mwah
brucel@opera.com www.brucelawson.co.uk www.twitter.com/brucel www.html5doctor.com