Does HTML5 and CSS3 Have a Future?
If you find yourself bored of reading about Fashion week, Google Buzz, and Tiger Woods check out the bickering going on within the web development community over “Adobe’s secret hold” on HTML5. It’s like a bunch of kids on the playground arguing over who was a better Center Fielder: Willie Mays or Ty Cobb (wow, I even dated myself with that reference).
It is an interesting predicament that the W3C and WHATWG have found themselves in. Keep in mind that the W3C first started drafting the specifications for CSS3 in 1998, and it remains under development at the time of this publication.
Just to quickly fill you in as to what is going on behind the scenes right now:
Many of the so-called leaders in the development and implementation of HTML5 are having a hard time placing principles ahead of personalities with respect to the CANVAS and OBJECT tags as they apply to proprietary video codecs. Underneath it all the issue is really about people in power at browser vendors like Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google to key player like Larry Masinter and Ian Hickson at Adobe and W3C respectively, who wants to single-handedly lead the charge and take all of the credit. Early money is on Google.
I have recently started working on developing a WordPress template based on Quasimo’s Love Today Theme and see the enormous potential when teamed up with CSS3 for far more lucid, semantic code, but if the past ten years have been any indication, most influential Internet properties and software companies along with web standards pontiffs stay stuck in gridlock because of overbearing egos, not an overabundance of ideas.
Do you think there is any hope left for HTML5 and CSS3?
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