HTML 5 Weekly Review #2
This week in HTML 5: Say goodbye to Ogg Theora, John Resig on HTML 5 parsing and Edge Rails switches its DOCTYPE.
No Specified Video Codec for HTML 5
ZDNet reports that HTML 5 author Ian Hickson has decided to drop support for the open source Ogg Theora video codec format as well as Apple’s H.264 format. Both are being pulled because of opposition from other browser vendors and Hickson’s approach to vendor involvement in writing the new spec. This means that HTML 5 will not specify a codec for use with the video element.
HTML 5 Parsing
John Resig talks about one of the most widely supported sections of the HTML 5 spec: document parsing.
New Rails DOCTYPE
In a recent commit, the main scaffolding template files in Rails were switched to the HTML 5 DOCTYPE. A short discussion of the changes can be found on Hacker News.
Site of the Week: UX London
The guys at Clearleft have done a great job recently in showing that HTML 5 is mature enough to be used on productions sites. Not only do they use it on their own site, but the design they did for the UX London conference features HTML 5 as well.