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Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group

WHATWG

== HTML 5 ==

URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/

HTML 5 defines a kaboodle of new elements and attributes, as well as

some well-defined, "quirks mode" HTML parsing.  Although WHATWG professes

to be targeted towards web applications, many of their semantic additions

would be quite useful in regular documents. Eventually, HTML

Purifier will need to audit their lists and figure out what changes need

to be made.  This process is complicated by the fact that the WHATWG

doesn't buy into W3C's modularization of XHTML 1.1: we may need

to remodularize HTML 5 (probably done by section name). No sense in

committing ourselves till the spec stabilizes, though.

More immediately speaking though, however, is the well-defined parsing

behavior that HTML 5 adds. While I have little interest in writing

another DirectLex parser, other parsers like ph5p

<http://jero.net/lab/ph5p/> can be adapted to DOMLex to support much more

flexible HTML parsing (a cool feature I've seen is how they resolve

<b>bold<i>both</b>italic</i>).

vim: et sw=4 sts=4

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