Creating Your First HTML 5 Web Page by Michael Dorf.
From the post:
Whether you have been writing web pages for a while or you are new to writing HTML, the new HTML 5 elements are still within your reach. It is important to learn how HTML 5 works since there are many new features that will make your pages better and more functional. Once you get your first web page under your belt you will find that they are very easy to put together and you will be on your way to making many more.
To begin, take a look at this base HTML page we will be working with. This is just a plain-ol’ HTML page, but we can start adding HTML5 elements to jazz it up!
But that’s not why I am posting it here. 😉
A little later Michael says:
The new, simple DOCTYPE is much easier to remember and use than previous versions. The W3C is trying to stop versioning HTML so that backwards compatibility will become easier, so there are “technically” no more versions of HTML.
I’m not sure I follow on “…to stop versioning HTML so that backwards compatibility will become easier….”
Unless that means that HTML (5 I assume) is going into a feature/semantic freeze?
That would promote backwards compatibility but I am not sure is a good solution.
Just curious if you have heard the same?
Comments?