A few HTML5 questions that need answering

I just released the notes of my “Using HTML5 sensibly” talk over on the Mozilla hacks blog and there are a few questions that need answering by anyone who wants to be part of publishing on the web in the future:

• Can innovation be based on “people never did this correctly anyways”?
• Is it HTML or BML? (HyperText Markup Language or Browser Markup Language)
• Should HTML be there only for browsers? What about conversion Services? Search bots? Content scrapers?
• Should we shoe-horn new technology into legacy browsers?
• Do patches add complexity as we need to test their performance? (there is no point in giving an old browser functionality that simply looks bad or grinds it down to a halt)
• How about moving IE fixes to the server side? Padding with DIVs with classes in PHP/Ruby/Python after checking the browser and no JS for IE?
• Can we expect content creators to create video in many formats to support an open technology?
• Can a service like vid.ly be trusted for content creation and storage?
• Is HTML5 not applicable for premium content?

Check the detailed notes on the Mozilla blog, and – as a reminder – here are the slides and the video of the talk:

You can get the slides on Slideshare or see them here:

You can see “Using HTML5 sensibly” on any HTML5 enabled device here (courtesy of vid.ly).

Tags: fixes, html5, publication, standards