The Fundamentals, Primitives and History of HTML5

1 · Paul Irish · Nov. 21, 2011, 1:39 p.m.
Just gave this talk at W3Conf about some of the innerworkings of HTML5. Lots of did-you-know and cool insight into how browsers work. 37 minutes long, The Primitives of the HTML5 Foundation - Slides I do discuss optional start and end tags as well as not quoting your attributes. I concede that these ideas scare the shit out of people. In fact, when I first heard Jens Meiert propose the idea in 2009 my brain rejected it. Still, I think many of the markup parsing curiosities that can be frighte...