HTML6

A spec to HTML6

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A spec to HTML6

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2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	4
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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lioeters·May 8, 2019

The article is kind of a waste of time. It's from 2014, based on an abandoned idea [0] that never went anywhere. However, I would like to mention posthtml [1] which is an actual practical tool for "transpiling" HTML. [0] https://github.com/OscarGodson/HTML6 [1] https://github.com/posthtml/posthtml

In A Look into HTML6 – What Is It and What It Has to Offer?

nailer·Dec 2, 2014

Filed it: https://github.com/OscarGodson/HTML6/issues/39

In HTML6 Concept

xrstf·Dec 2, 2014

On the issue tracker (https://github.com/OscarGodson/HTML6/issues/17#issuecomment-...), it's stated that this "HTML6" is meant for developing applications, not marking up documents. Which strikes me as odd, because he is pushing for semantics but is not targetting the one usage of HTML where it would make sense: Documents. In apps, I care little about semantics. div-soup all the way, why not? Using non-standard attributes? Sure! As long as the browser behaves as an application platform and only my app has to understand the markup, then doing all this is fine [to me]. But for documents, it's a different thing. I want those to be as accessible as possible. This is the place to use semantic markup. I want to use <date> and similar things because I want search engines to understand my document. But "HTML6" is not meant for this? So... I can s

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ee where the author wanted to go with this, but it just doesn't make sense to me.

In HTML6 Concept

BrandonSmith·Dec 2, 2014

This is an old site. Copyright of the site is 2012. The github repo's first commit[1] predates the first commit of Web Components' draft of Custom Elements[2] by a few months. So, I wouldn't say ignorant but that the Web is catching up to this "spec's" vision. [1] https://github.com/OscarGodson/HTML6/commit/7d58a98b30fe473d... [2] https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/commit/c60060999073e181...

In HTML6 Concept

ahahah·Jan 31, 2014

A UI Semantics is probably essential before you start authoring HTML with application semantics, like HTTP Verbs via AJAX. So there's an essential need for things like LESS and SASS to provide managers for states, easy to follow metamixins for liberally namespacing HTML through classes at least. https://github.com/OscarGodson/HTML6 anyone?

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