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PUBLIC MARKS from marco with tags html5 & interview

25 May 2009 11:00

Interview with Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification

We considered RDFa long and hard [...] but at the end of the day, while some people really like it, I don't think it strikes the right balance between power and ease of authoring.

html5 rdfa Ian Hickson interview

14 September 2008 19:15

HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more

HTML4 requires alt but doesn't give any advice about how to use it. With HTML5, I added a long section that describes how to use it in detail and said that in some cases (e.g., webcams), there might not be any useful replacement text, and so it would be ok in those cases (and only those cases) to omit the attribute. This caused a firestorm of protest from so-called accessibility experts.

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