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W3C Adds Time Element Back to HTML5

If HTML5 editor Ian Hickson’s recent decision to remove the  element from the HTML5 specification left you scratching your head, you’re not alone. The W3C, the group that oversees HTML5, feels the same way and have stepped in to override Hickson’s earlier decision to remove the widely used element from the HTML5 spec. That means is once again part of HTML5.

There’s a hint of friction in W3C member Paul Cotton’s post to the HTML Working Group, suggesting that the W3C feels Hickson overstepped his bounds in removing . “Therefore we direct the HTML5 Editor to NOT process this bug further,” writes Cotton, who goes on to say that the  element will be reinstated to the spec by Nov. 8.

The HTML WG wants, ahem, more time to hash out. It’s unclear exactly what this means for the WHATWG version of the HTML5 spec (see our article onthe Difference Between the WHATWG and the HTML WG), but the W3C’s new love for time should be welcome news for web developers who’ve already deployed  on their sites.

While Hickson’s move to toss time out was probably premature, there are nevertheless some problems with . The  element offers the ability to add semantic meaning to pages by marking up dates and other time data, but not all use cases have been covered and some gray areas still exist. For example, the code 2:30 could refer to a time of day or perhaps the length of a movie. Both are theoretically valid uses and figuring out the details and the various potential use cases, is exactly what the HTML WG wants more time to do.

In the minutes from the last HTML WG meeting developer Tantek Çelik, makes the case for re-instating  just as it was, but also adding several new capabilities. Çelik suggests accounting for use cases like a  tag with only a year (commonly used on sites like Wikipedia or for copyright), and also for using  with only a day and month, commonly used when specifying dates like Christmas — 12/25 or 25/12, depending on where you live. Still to be decided are use cases like duration and some details around time zones.

Like the rest of HTML5,  remains a work in progress. Now that it’s once again a part of the HTML5 spec that work can resume and those who are already using  in some of its well-established roles can breathe easier.

Source: Scott Gilbertson

Life after Google: Brad Neuberg's HTML5 start-up

For someone interested in capitalizing on the new era of advanced Web standards, you'd think Google would be a pretty good employer. After all, it's got an up-and coming browser, some of the world's most influential Web applications, and plenty of money to invest in both.

But in the culture of Silicon Valley, sometimes there's a time to strike off on one's own, and that's what Brad Neuberg, a very visible Web programmer at Google, decided to do. He announced his departure on the eve of a speech last week at the Future of Web Apps conference here.

In an interview with CNET afterward, Neuberg said he plans to launch a San Francisco start-up in November focusing on the same suite of Web technology he's been steeped in at Google. He's cagey on details, but he said he plans to focus on Web applications for consumers.

"I drank the HTML5 Kool-Aid," he said, saying it and other Web standards are fueling a new wave of entrepreneurial activity. " I really believe we're starting to see those start-ups. We'll see that accelerate in the next six months to a year and a half."
Plus, he didn't like spending three hours a day commuting from San Francisco to Google's Mountain View, Calif., offices and back for two years and nine months of his life.

"What am I sacrificing? It didn't all fit," he said. "I should be doing what I would do if I won the lottery," so now he's begun trying to gather a group of like-minded folk for the start-up.


Read more: http://news.cnet.com/webware/?tag=hdr;snav#ixzz129I5ob00

Adobe Anuncia Soporte para HTML5 en Dreamweaver CS5

Adobe Systems Incorporated anunció en la conferencia Google I/O una nueva solución HTML5 que está disponible de inmediato para diseñadores y desarrolladores Web. El Adobe HTML5 Pack es una extensión de Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, la más reciente versión de la herramienta de autoría HTML líder de la industria para diseño de sitios Web. Esta extensión ofrece más opciones creativas a los usuarios de Adobe Creative Suite 5, para que puedan crear, entregar y optimizar de forma más fácil y consistente los conjuntos de contenido, sobre la más amplia gama de pantallas, y así maximizar la facturación y llevar adelante sus negocios.

Para más información visiten: http://actimediadigital.com/site/det_noticia_a.php?id=139

Ejemplos de HTML 5 en acción

Sin duda la próxima generación del código fuente de la web promete lograr una gran integración del concepto "interactivo" y "participativo", sobre todo que lograremos obtener soluciones con un performance similar al que Adobe Flash ofrece pero sin necesidad de usar ningún Plugin. Por supuesto que no todo es una maravilla y el factor o producción torna la balanza hacia la utilización de código inteligente que puede matemáticamente resolver este tipo de recursos y brindar interfaces de alto impacto y con funcionalidades que apenas estamos comenzando a imaginar.

El reto en nuestro parecer, el mismo que CSS vs HTML 4 ha tenido siempre, la eterna lucha contra la diferencia en representación por la extensa variedad de browser existentes en el mercado... firefox, explorer, safari, chrome, opera, etc! aún el reto e idea de "standard" no logra cristalizarse y por el contrario la introducción y fuerza de la navegación en dispositivos móbiles gana cada día mas fuerza, sobre todo con la prominente llegada de las iPad que sin duda marcan un nuevo segmento del mercado y posiblemente masifiquen aún más la navegación en internet en paises donde la lectura y la investigación literaria es muy apreciada.

Aquí tienen una galería bien interesante de diferentes ejemplos escritos ya en HTML 5...

http://html5demos.com/