Thursday, March 1, 2012

Week 9 Reading Notes


W3Schools: HTML5 Tutorial
  • Am I the only one who doesn’t know what a ruby annotation is?
  • I wonder how it was decided which HTML 4.01 elements would be removed from HTML5. Who had a say in this?
  • So, does HTML5 not require Flash in order for videos to be shown?
  • Which is the most common video format: HP4, WebM, or Ogg? Good to note that Google Chrome supports all three video formats.
  • Again, which is the most common audio format: MP3, Wav, or Ogg? And again, Chrome supports all three audio formats.
  • If you decide to use Geolocation on a website, it is extremely important to explain your users why this is important to you and to have some sort of privacy policy they can refer to.
  • This tutorial exemplifies how/why Internet Explorer is an inferior browser—it supports very few of the new HTML5 elements.


Wikipedia: HTML5
  • If HTML5 was first proposed by Opera, why doesn’t the Opera browser support all of the new elements? In fact, it appeared that Google Chrome was the most supportive browser.
  • The above can be explained by the fact that Ian Hickson of Google is the current HTML5 editor.


W3Schools: HTML vs. XHTML
  • XHTML seems a lot less user-friendly for the general public (due to its strict rules), but it does a better job at adhering to a set of standards. It’s more time-consuming, but I also feel like it’s less confusing because of its strict rules.

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