OT: old x/html spec recommendations may be made obsolete.

[pziecina]

Just though this may be of interest to everyone, that the w3c is proposing to make everything that is not html5.1+ obsolete.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-review-announce/2017Aug/0004.html

[Nancy OShea]

That seems reasonable to me.  It might discourage people from clinging to old doc types.

[BenPleysier]

Great news, now hoping that browsers follow otherwise it will not make one iota of difference to the status quo.

[pziecina]

BenPleysier  wrote

Great news, now hoping that browsers follow otherwise it will not make one iota of difference to the status quo.

Browsers will continue to support all versions from html 1. Where it will eventually make a difference is for browser performance and web editors such as Dw, as browsers will no longer be required to fully support files in which the developer uses the html 5 doctype, then includes old pre-html 5 elements within the code, (for example).

Editors such as Dw, can if they wish drop all support that is not html5 over time, making the creation of html 5 compliant code much easier, and speeding up the editor, as only one spec for html is supported, every other html spec can simply be ignored, and flagged as an error.

I don't expect editors such as Dw, (or VS for that matter) to do much until IE11, and windows 7 are retired, but for any new editors comming on the market it will enable the creators of those to just support html5, making development for such editors much easier and faster.

For Dw, i would hope that over the next few years, if the proposal is accepted, that it will offer full support for the html5 specs and not just the partial support it currently offers. Though i do accept that will depend on the type of user it eventually targets.