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Authoring HTML 5
Today there was yet another revealing message on the public-html mailing list. Most of the people have difficulties to grasp what is parsed and what can be authored. This is an issue.
Sam Ruby (IBM) is saying in a message on December 6, 2007:
P.S. The reason I did not understand the original message is that I do see
wbrmentioned in the current draft of the html5, and I don't see where it declares that it is an error.
Ian Hickson (Google), one of the two HTML 5 specification editors, is replying on February 13, 2008:
It's not a parse error, but there's no way to include it in an HTML document without violating the content models.
We really need to come up with a document for HTML 5 authors. I have written it a few times. This document needs to be written by Web designers, Web design agency workers, freelance, etc. It is not about creating a new language. One first step would be to extract all the content model of HTML 5. Lachlan Hunt (Opera) had started to put together what could be such a document: The Web Developer's Guide to HTML 5. It would be cool if a group of people were ready to work on this. Read carefully, working, here means editing a document, collecting comments, improving it, etc.
If you feel so, join the HTML WG.
Filed by Karl Dubost on February 12, 2008 9:27 PM in HTML
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Hi all!
Im eager to help in this regard. I have good knowledge of HTML. If you need please contact. It can help you in full time also onsite
Good luck...
Karl Dubost 
To help, you just need to join the HTML WG and starts working on it. :)
No far=/ http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rar.co.il%2Ffiles%2F1205059557.html&showsource=yes Why can I not do value "true" for readonly? It's looking better than readonly="readonly"..
Hello,
I would like to ask a question.
In the HTML 5 specification I've seen that many new properties will take the values of true/false.
What I'm missing there is an update for the old properties (for example option tag's selected property that takes "selected" as its value) to take true/false values as well.
Did I miss it in the specification, or is there a reason that it's not there ?
Thanks in advance, Nir
I'm using HTML 3 and I'm happy! It's ideal.
Karl Dubost
Maybe you are using HTML 3.2. There is no HTML 3 per se. I guess it depends on your needs, but I encourage you to look at the feature set of HTML 4.01 at least ;)
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Hello!
I would like to help you in your work, but I'm still learning HTML 4.0 Transitional. So, I think it would be no use if I try.
Good luck...