As a developer I'm totally looking forward to implementing HTML5. The spec is pretty huge and at first I didn't see the use in a few of the new tags beyond coding for a giant CMS which I am not ready to do. It was really when I started looking at mobile closer and looking for ideas that prevent having to code and design an entirely new style sheet(at the least)for phones and tablets. We all know that mobile is the future and a lot of the specs in HTML5 seem to address this issue head-on. I'm particularly interested in the flexible box model hack which you can play around with now via the Webkit vendor prefix.
The problem of course is that playing around in Chrome isn't the real world. Or real web is perhaps a better term. As a web standards guy, I'm quite interested in following the process of the WC3, browsers and vendors duking it out, at least intellectually.
Here's a great link to an interview between Eric Meyer of A List Apart and Tantek Celik of Mozilla on this very subject. Meyer lobs some pretty serious questions at Celik who handles them masterfully and in my opinion throws back even more real world questions. It's interesting because we are all on the same page looking towards the same future. It's just how best to get there that's in question.
With Mozilla's possible push to support Webkit we could be taking a step in the right direction, but how will IE respond? I'm geeking out over it! Get into it!
A List Apart: The Vendor Prefix Predicament
The problem of course is that playing around in Chrome isn't the real world. Or real web is perhaps a better term. As a web standards guy, I'm quite interested in following the process of the WC3, browsers and vendors duking it out, at least intellectually.
Here's a great link to an interview between Eric Meyer of A List Apart and Tantek Celik of Mozilla on this very subject. Meyer lobs some pretty serious questions at Celik who handles them masterfully and in my opinion throws back even more real world questions. It's interesting because we are all on the same page looking towards the same future. It's just how best to get there that's in question.
With Mozilla's possible push to support Webkit we could be taking a step in the right direction, but how will IE respond? I'm geeking out over it! Get into it!
A List Apart: The Vendor Prefix Predicament